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- $45 upfront payment equivalent to $15 per month. New customers on first three month plan only. Taxes and fees extra. Speeds lower above 40 gigabytes, see details. - Hello and welcome to another episode of Trash Taste. I am your host for today, Garnt, Grant, whatever the fuck you wanna call me. And with me as usual is DaBoys. - DaBoys. - DaBoys. - It's really selfish of you to have that name because it's really inconvenient for me when I'm texting about you.

- You want us to keep correcting it. You know how inconvenient that is to me Garnt? - Do you know how inconvenient it is when I, it auto-corrects my own name when I'm referring to myself. - It's even more inconvenient 'cause when you look up Garnt on like Wikipedia, it goes to my fucking Wikipedia. - Yeah, what the fuck? - Like fucking tin foil hat, like initiate, right? - I saw it on the subreddit. It's like, when you look up Gigguk, it's like the anime man. What is Gigguk's real name? Joey Bazinga.

- I fucking said it. - You've known each other for how long? - Fucking hell. - So how are you doing boys? It's been a while. You guys don't know this, but it's been like a three week break since we last recorded. Through the magic of scheduling, you wouldn't have had a break at all, but yeah, it's been three weeks since we last had a recording. - We had a three week break, right? Because, well, you went on journey across Japan

- I went on journey across Japan. - Abroad with a man? - Abroad in a man. - Abroad in a man. - I also hung out with Chris before that in Kyoto. So it was like kind of like an awkward timing where it was like three weeks where we couldn't record. - Yeah, but it's, I don't know. It's been a nice refresh I'd say.

- I'm sick of fucking seeing you guys. - Yeah, God. Every week, Jesus, man. - No, I mean, it's 'cause I think normally, especially when we did three episodes in one week, 'cause that's what we did to allow us to do it. On the last episode, I was like, fuck,

- There's only so much I can chat shit, you know, if you're chatting shit every day for like three times a week or whatever. - And it's not like we're all going out and doing like interesting things every day, right? It's like five days out of the week, we're just in our room, like just working on videos. - Yeah, like that's, I mean, we talked about this earlier, but like how do like streamers who stream every day and just like, what do they talk about? 'Cause sometimes when we have more than one recording a week, sometimes I'm like,

I don't know what the fuck to talk about sometimes. Like what's going on with you guys? - I was like the barrel is very shallow. The bottom is just there. What's going on with you? Are you playing games? Are you playing Apex? Just like last week. - What am I supposed to do if the police don't stop me once a week? What am I supposed to talk about? - I need to commit a crime to make a story. - I'm not running out of stories. What am I supposed to do?

- It's like if you're a streamer, you just gotta be talking about the other streams that happened. - Yeah, exactly. - Just gotta like watch YouTube videos. - Someone had this really funny name last stream called Pee Pee Poo Poo. That was a really fun moment. - Let me drag that up for 15 minutes.

I mean, it's like, I don't know. I don't know how much I'm allowed to talk about Journey Across Japan because I think at this point- - It's free promo, Chris. - It's probably not even out yet, but I think the trailer will be out by then. So if you want to check that out, I guess. - Here's a teaser. Joey won't say everything that happened, I'm sure. - Just go and watch the videos. - Yeah, just go watch the videos, whatever. - I mean, yeah, I literally came back yesterday as of us recording this. - How was it? - Oh, it was fucking insane.

- Hype it up, hype it up. - I'll hype it up for Chris. - All right, I'll hype it up for Chris. "Journey Across Japan 2." I should probably explain what "Journey Across Japan" even is. So if you don't know, "Journey Across Japan" is a series that Chris Broad, who's been on the show a couple of times. - Let me guess, you go across Japan. - We go across Japan. - I was about to say, it kind of speaks for itself. - It's a show we do together on Chris's channel where we go across Japan, do like challenges and like go visit cool places in Japan. And "Journey Across Japan 3,"

is like the third one we just finished where we went through Kyushu, which is like the most Southern Island in Japan. - Right. - Awesome because I'd never been to Kyushu like at all.

And just this past week I went through all the prefectures of Kyushu in one go. So it was fucking great. - Speed running tourism. - Yeah, we were speed running Kyushu literally. - I like how Chris took you around like all the amazing places and he took me to like the shittest place. - Did he? Didn't you go to like a gin factory or something? - No, we did go to a gin place. - Was that like the highlight? - That was the highlight, yeah. Just got to drink really nice gin that was like free, which is like the best. - Oh, that's cool. - Yeah, and then you can just be like, make me this cocktail and they made it.

which is great, which is like just a power trip that I needed in my life. - But I mean, you've already been to Kyoto, right? - Yeah, I've been once before, but he found this Welsh town, like Welsh British town in like an hour. - In Kyoto? - In like an hour in the mountains in Kyoto Drive. - Wow. - And it was pretty shit. But it was good, but it was just kind of like really underwhelming. - Was it just like home or? - Weirdly, weirdly, yeah. - Did you feel like culturally appropriated in it?

- I don't know, it's just how people feel when they see white people wearing kimonos. I'm like, this is kind of cool, but like, what's going on? Like, why? - I just wanted you to be like, oh God, this is so shit, just reminds me of home. - I mean, yeah, basically. No, I feel bad dogging it. It was just kind of like, it was really bizarre and like underwhelming, I don't know. But also the fish and chips is $22, which is criminal. - I mean, I'm sure like, I don't know how it feels like for say like, you know,

someone who lived in China going to like Chinatown or something like that. - That's kind of different though, isn't it? It's normally like markets and restaurants, right? - Yeah, I mean, that's true. - I feel like Chinatown is like, this is actually China. - Okay, well describe to me this Welsh town then. - So there was- - What about a made of Welsh? - All the buildings looked like they were just pulled out of like a small town in Wales. It was really weird. And it was just really old style. Like the places where you'd find in like really West Wales. And it was just really strange.

'Cause it's like, I didn't particularly like this stuff. - Was like everything written in Welsh or? - Well, one of the pubs is called Pont Oak and Pont means bridge in Welsh. - Oh, okay. At least they were accurate about it. - That was pretty cool. - People fucking sheep around the corner. - It's a deer, bring your own sheep. - I'm just British, so I'm really sarcastic about everything. And it was just like, I feel like this is the one time where I can be like,

to actually become sarcastic about something and no one can correct me. 'Cause I'm fucking brilliant. - This is my culture now. Welcome to my culture. I mean, it probably wasn't as offensive as the first time I went to a fucking Outback Steakhouse, right? And I was just like, is this what Australia is to everyone? Fucking boomerangs on the wall everywhere. Yeah, just like in Australia. - I don't really know. I mean, I'm pretty, I kind of bash on every culture.

but I'm by far the hot, I by far bash on my own culture more than any. - Well that's good because if it was anything else, if it was anything else, you'd be really bad to say right now. - Americans be like, oh really?

- I'm pretty harsh on Americans. I feel like I'm more harsh on- - I feel like that's just part of British culture, right? Because you just, you rag on everyone equally, but you especially rag on your own culture. - Oh yeah, of course. - But like for some reason when someone else rags on your culture, you're like, no, only I get to complain about my culture, thank you very much. It's the one time everyone has just patronized. - I feel like being British, you can't really complain anymore. Like everyone fucking mocks British people now. So you kind of just get used to it. I'm just like, yes, honey.

- Oh, you made another British meme, bottle of water. All right. - I feel like self-deprecation is just part of British culture and British mentality. - It's such an amazing fall though, right? Especially on YouTube, because remember- - Amazing fall. The rise and fall of British culture. - No, because remember in 2015, everyone was fucking obsessed with British culture. And now everyone's like, "Oh, in it is the English form of desu."

- I think it's just 'cause the internet has just realized what British people actually sound like. - I always wondered that when I was growing up. I was like, "No one sounds like this around me." - It's like, "Wait, everyone in the UK doesn't sound like Harry Styles? What?" - And I'm just like, 'cause I remember growing up, I was like, "When is the world gonna realize that people don't sound like they do in Harry Potter?" - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Or every other British film, or like Doctor Who or whatever.

- I'm just waiting for the day that everyone realizes that not everyone in Australia looks like Chris Hemsworth. - Debatable. I mean, I know like two people and they look, you know, you're one of them. You look close enough. - To Chris Hemsworth? - You get ripped, you're like Chris Hemsworth. - If I get ripped, I'll look like Jason Momoa.

- What are you waiting for, Joe? Okay, tell me what else you get up to then in Fukuoka that you can tease for us. - Okay, I can tease, well, I mean, Journey Across Japan, so there's always a theme, right? So like the first Journey Across Japan was- - Cycling. - Yeah, it was Chris cycling and I was just on one part of it. But then the second Journey Across Japan, I was there fully for it and it was called Escape to Fuji.

So the theme of it was we went around Mount Fuji and like all the cool places we can go to Mount Fuji because Chris had never seen a nice view of Mount Fuji in his life. So he's never taken one of those like touristy photos. And he kept like, apparently his audience kept sending him like pictures of like amazing views. Like, "Hey look, Chris, I was here for two days and I got an amazing view

Mount Fuji, fuck you. - You can check it out now, by the way. - Yeah, you can check it out now. It's all there. So the third journey across Japan is called the Lost Islands because the Kyushu area has all these like tiny- - It's kinda like Jurassic Park here, man. - Yeah, right? Even the fucking promotional artwork looks like a fucking shitty movie poster. It's like a big, I say shitty, it looks amazing. But like,

- Yeah, so the Kyushu area is like, it's almost like an archipelago of just these like insane amount of tiny- - What was that word, sorry? - Archipelago. - What the fuck? Somebody needs to whip out a dictionary. What was that? - An archipelago is like- - It's like a group of islands, right? - It's like a group of islands. - I've never heard of this. I'm not even gonna pretend to be smart. I did not know that word, man. - An archipelago is basically like a group of lots of- - When did you learn that word, Joey?

- Did you learn it before the trip? - No. - That is not a common word. - I learned it in school. - It's in like films. - What did you say? - It's like in films. - Did you guys know that word? You guys knew that word? - Yeah. - Did you know that word, Maylene? - Archipelago? - Maylene didn't know that word. - Really?

- Really? You're looking for Malians to be on your side here? - Oh fuck, all right. - It's something. - So like the Philippines, for example, is an archipelago because it's just a bunch of tiny, tiny, tiny islands. So basically- - It's like fucking cultural cross pollination all over again, Matt. - In layman's terms, there's lots of tiny, tiny islands along the coast of Kyushu. So we were like, oh, that's perfect. We'll call it the Lost Islands because we'll try and go to as many of these like small islands. And I think we ended up going to like three or four of them.

I mean, obviously we couldn't go to all of them because there's literally thousands of them out there, but some of these islands were fucking insane looking completely.

- Show me some pictures. - Yeah, show pictures. - It's gonna be fun when you guys get to watch it. - Yeah, but yeah, it's just incredible. Like we literally did speed run Kyushu. I think 'cause like that week felt like a month. It was fucking insane. - I mean, it sounds like you did a fuck ton from how you were describing it to me. - Honestly, the challenges that we like usually, you know, pair with on Journey Across Japan, this time around was like kind of a back burner just because there's so much shit we were doing. They were like,

- Oh yeah, I forgot we had to do like a challenge for this video. Fuck. But yeah, hopefully the trailer will be out by the time this episode goes out. - If Chris isn't lazy. - If not, sorry, Chris, I probably just sent a bunch of where's the trailer people over to your channel. - You had it coming.

- What I wanna know is that how many more places can he do journey across Japan? Like how many more themes can he do? Because like one thing I will say about Japan is that one of the thing that impresses me the most is just how fucking varied Japan is in terms of like how many places there are to travel and to explore. And I'm just like, 'cause I'm used to the UK, right?

And I feel like if you've explored a decent amount of the UK, then you've kind of, to me at least, you've kind of seen it all. - It's like one town. - Yeah, yeah. If you go to one town, you go to one city and it's kind of all the same. I mean, London, to me, London kind of exists in its own bubble. London's like unique, but like anywhere outside of London, I mean, fucking- - That looks shit. Same in it.

- I mean, Australia is the same thing, right? Like I think geographically it's just as large as like the US maybe close to it. - Yeah. - We have six and so. - It's like 80% of it is a fucking desert. So it's like, that's why like I barely gone exploring in Australia because I'm just like, I just don't know what there is out there. But then again,

- If Chris hadn't like gone and done like extensive research on places in Kyushu, I probably would have had no fucking idea. - I don't know how Chris finds these fucking places. He comes to me with this town in the mountains of Kyoto. - Yeah, right?

- He literally just like spends months just researching like interesting places. I remember like on Journey Across Japan 2, there was this like in the middle of the mountains in Gifu prefecture or Toyama, I think it was Toyama prefecture, which usually, you know, people don't go to for tourism. He found this like in the middle of the fucking mountains, there was this like field of like a thousand statues of people.

that had just been built. And you know how he found it? He literally went onto like Google satellite and just like scan through the mountains. - Oh my God. - What the? - Until he stopped and was like, what is this gray blob? And like enhanced. - Enhanced. - And then saw that there were these statues in it. 'Cause like, if you look it up, like before that video went up, there was no articles about it.

Like not even Japanese media talks about it. - Dude, this is like some next level. This is like some NASA shit, man. - Yeah, I was like, I want your like dedication and research. - People do strange things with their land in Japan. Like in the UK, you just kind of have a field and maybe you put a fence in it. - Yeah. - Call it a day. - There's only so much things you can do. - In Japan, they seem to go crazy with it. They're like, what if we just made a field that's just trampoline?

- Outside. - If you look it up, it's probably somewhere on the other side, right? - I mean, that's what's so awesome about Japan is that you can just be driving in the middle of nowhere and then like you just see this weird fucking place that you don't know who, you don't know what madman came up with this idea.

Just put like a field of statues or something like that. - And it's not even like built for tourism either because it's not even known for it. It's like, if you're lucky enough to find it, then there you go, there it is, enjoy it. - I'm hoping the next journey across Japan is just like five-star hotels and Chris is like, "Come on Connor, let's go. "Let's go just go review five-star hotels." I'm down for that. - Journey across Michelin restaurants in Japan. - Not only is it a tax deductible,

It's also fantastic. It's fun. I wanna do this. - Yeah, but please look forward to that whenever that, I think he said it's coming out end of May, maybe? So hopefully soon. - So like how many more places in Japan do you want to visit personally? - So I have this app actually on my phone where you can keep track of, it's what I use to keep track of all the prefectures I've been to. - It's called Google Maps. - It stalks you, right? It knows exactly where you are. - Okay, yeah. So like, have we told the story about the cycling yet?

- Yeah, okay. I mean, so I know because I like this that Google tells me exactly where I was for how long. I like looking back where I was and like, 'cause when people ask me, "Oh, where were you this day?" I'm like, "Oh, let me check." And I'm like, "Oh, I know." - When the police asked me, "Where were you this day?" - When the Japanese police officer is asking for my alibi, I've got one ready. But like, it tells you exactly where you were for how long. And when we did the cycling special, we all had our phone tracking on that wasn't shown in the video,

We actually saw where we all were throughout the video. And when the video was done, I asked them, I was like, "Hey guys, can you export your map data so that we can send it to our editor so that he can know where we were?" - So that's how you see all the cool map graphics that Mooniron made. - It's not 100% accurate, but it's pretty close. - It's pretty close. - So where we are generally on that map

is actually where we were. - So we turned on location services, which I didn't know that you could track each other in like real time. So it wasn't a part of like the big, we didn't make it a big part of the special, but we could actually see where we were as we were cycling down. So I could see like that Joey was fucking kicking my ass

And Connor turned off his location sharing when he was taking the ferry. So he just like popped out of existence and popped in existence again. - I literally thought he was like lost out to sea. - Yeah, I just said I was broken. - I was like, he's dead, he's dead. He's just straight up dead. - I said there was no signal. - Exactly. - When I asked these guys to share it, they were like, wait, Garnt was like, wait, what?

like they keep all this information on you. - Yeah. - Yeah, it's awesome, right? - It's terrifying. - So I didn't realize that by turning on location services, I could go through my entire history day by day. And if you've turned on location services, you can probably do that right now. If you go to Google maps and you can go through the history of your like location services and it will tell you

the exact location you've been hour by hour every single day for like the past 10 years of your life. - Yeah, it's pretty good. - It's scary. - That's terrifying to me. - Google is literally stalking you at all times. - You know what's sad is like when I used to live in London 'cause I barely ever left my house, it would be like, what do they do this day? And it's like a dot on the map of me

of me not leaving my house. I'd be like, "Oh, what do I do this day?" "Oh, okay, maybe the next day." "Oh, okay, four days in a row I didn't leave the house. All right." And then it would just be America. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I didn't know this was like some fucking FBI shit, man. - I like it, I don't know. 'Cause sometimes I go to a place and I'm like, "Oh fuck, where was that?" And I can just go on Google and find out where I was. - I mean, it's cool to look back on it, right? - Yeah, no, it is cool. - If you're the only one looking at it.

- I mean, it's like two sides, right? 'Cause it's cool to know that you could go through your entire life history, but it's also kind of like, I guess scary or not scary, but like disturbing that your entire life is like, can be compressed down into a file and just like analyzed, right? - That's pretty cool. - And exported, right? - And exported. I don't know, that's just like, this is the future that Black Mirror like warned us about, you know? - That is some joy. - I for one welcome our Black Mirror overlords.

I welcome technology.

- I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I like it. It's fun. It's interactive. - Interactive? - What do you mean interactive? - It's not stalking, it's interactive. - No, I can see the cool side of it. It's just a bit like- - Wait, why did this come up again? - Because you're asking how many prefectures- - Oh yeah, so is there any place that you would like to visit? - Yeah, so I have an app that shows me all the prefectures I've been to and I can kind of give points as well as being like,

So it's like, I visited there, I walked there, I stayed there overnight, I lived there, et cetera. And it like adds on the point. - I lived it, I did it. - So I know exactly now like which prefectures I haven't been to yet. And I think, I mean, I can bring it up, but I think maybe I've done, I wanna say like,

maybe three quarters of all the prefectures. But yeah, these are the ones I've done. - Red ones you've been to. - Holy shit. - So the red ones I've stayed overnight. I'll send this image to you, Mino. But the red ones I've stayed overnight, the green ones I've like just stopped over, the yellow ones I've passed through, the blue ones I've like walked around and the white ones I haven't visited yet. So there's a decent amount that I still haven't gone to, but this is good, right? Because now,

I can use that app basically to be like, all right, well, you know, I want to like take a weekend off somewhere. - Yeah. - You know, like I can plan my next vacation and be like, well, I've never been to this prefecture. So let's go check that out. - Yeah. - I sure wasn't so fucking stupid, man. - What do you mean? - I just don't like when I, I like don't really care where I am unless there's like, I don't know, something fun to do there. I'm like, oh, let's go on. - Oh yeah, of course, yeah. I wouldn't go to a fucking prefecture if I didn't have anything to do there. - Yeah.

I'm not the type of guy who just like, okay, I haven't been to this map yet. I haven't been to this part of the map. I need to know that there's something cool to do there.

- See, this is my JRPG, like 100% completionist side coming out 'cause I'm like, I gotta finish all 47 prefectures to complete it. - For me, it's like a catch 22 'cause I wanna go to new places, I wanna find new cool places, but I also don't have the energy that Chris does to just like fucking scout out places that look cool. - Not only scour, but like schedule it day by day, meticulously. - It's more like going with someone who plans stuff. I'm like, you plan it.

I'll just come along. I'll crack a few jokes here. - Well, that's why I love Journey Across Japan, right? It's like, it's a fucking vacation for me, right? It's like, I have to be on camera and talk for a few hours a day. - That is definitely the benefit of hanging out with Chris. He just takes care of everything. He's like, I know where we go and I know a place, let's do it. - Here's the definition of I know a place. - The one time I did that for Chris, I was like, let me take you to a place, right? We're in Kyoto, right? And I was like, no, no, I know a great coffee place. Literally outside where we were staying, there's a blue bottle coffee.

It's like the least Kyoto thing ever. Literally like an American chain. I'm like, nah, it's good. - Yeah, it's good, it's good. - To be fair, it's pretty fucking good. - It is the best coffee. - I know a place. - It's called Starbucks. - Starbucks. - They do pretty good coffee there. - Do we have a clip name? Japan's coffee is bottom tier because- - Probably not. - Well, we do now. - Yeah, we do now. - Japan's coffee is the fucking worst. - Have we talked about Japan's coffee yet? - It's fucking awful. - It's awful. - It is. - Japan truly is a tea.

- The tea society. - I did. - We live in a tea society. - We live in a tea society. - It's awful, man. It's like dirt. - Yeah, I didn't know that I cared about coffee until I moved to Japan and I realized that the coffee here was shit. 'Cause I thought living in England, I'm just like, whatever. I thought like my coffee tolerance was, I'll fucking take instant coffee if I need to. But like when I moved to Japan, I've realized what shit coffee tastes like.

but then I got a job and now I know. - Because remember the fucking like, just,

the brainwashing that happens the first time you come to Japan, you're like, I can buy a hot coffee at a vending machine. Oh my God, I'm gonna buy this every fucking day. - Oh my God. - And then you realize it's just all sugar. - You realize it's all crap and you're like, oh, Starbucks has never been so fucking attractive to me. - So yeah, so yeah. As you know, Japan has like a fuck ton of vending machines like everywhere. And I remember whenever I used to go on holiday in Japan,

I'd always get the coffee, vending machine coffee every single day without fail. And I'm just like, I will never get bored of this at all. This is fucking amazing. I don't need to go to a fucking Starbucks or a coffee shop to get my coffee. I can just go to a vending machine. And then I moved here and then I don't know what it is about moving here. Like something switched in my brain, right? And then I just instantly recognized it as like, oh, this tastes like crap. This is processed instant coffee shit. And I don't know why,

I don't know what switched my brain. Like, why is it that when I was here as a tourist, I was vending machine coffee and vending machine drinks were just like fucking like five stars. - 'Cause we don't have it in the UK. So you're like, you're like amazed by it. - It's just like a new weird thing, right? Like, you know, Connor, I remember was talking about how, you know, every time you came here to visit, you would fucking eat, you know, family mart onigiri every day, right? And then you realized,

"Oh, this is not that great actually." - I've actually gone back on it now. - Oh really? - You say that like a drunk. - I've come like full circle. - I've relapsed. - I was very die hard sandwiches for like a year and a half and now I'm like, man, I just crave rice now. What the fuck's going on? - I mean, the onion giri's are fucking great, dude. - Yeah, they are. - Onion giri's are great. I mean, I've never been off them.

- I realize I just sound like a druggie right there. - How many onigiri is too much? - Going back to the coffee, right? For me, coffee is as much of like a smell thing as it is a drink thing. Like I need, the reason why I like going into a coffee shop is 'cause I need that wall of coffee, smell it hit me. That's what makes me feel like I'm ready to fucking drink coffee. - I'd say coffee is a fucking morning thing for me right now because I- - Not a morning, a fucking morning.

- It is a fucking morning. - Honestly, is your morning really started if you don't have a coffee? 'Cause to me, if I don't have a coffee, that's like my indicator that my morning has begun. I can begin the day. If I don't have the coffee, then I'm just like in permanent, like 50% brain mode. - No coffee, I sleep. Coffee, I wake. - Exactly. That's literally how I am. I don't know if it's a placebo thing or- - No, I'm totally the same. Like, I remember there was one week where I was like,

I might be a little too dependent on coffee. Let me back it up a bit. Because I was having like two, three cups of coffee a day. - Right, so I have like four or five. - Yeah, right? And I'm like, that's probably not that good for me. My heart's probably about to explode. So let me just go a week with no coffee and see how I do. Day two, I was like, I was getting just insane migraines in my head. I was like, oh, I'm really fucking dependent on this shit to start the day. - I just get sluggish if I stop.

I don't really get too bad. - You don't get like coffee headaches? - No, I never got that. I've had friends who got it. - How it feels for me is that, you know that scene in the film where it's like they got the gray scale filter on it. That's how I see the world before I have my coffee. And then like I have the coffee and then like they instantly turn up the saturation. That is how my mornings work. I go from gray scale to sepia. - You are the fucking meme of don't talk to me until I've had my coffee.

Like you're literally that guy. - No, 'cause I remember when I first moved to Japan and my mornings were just like so depressing 'cause I didn't have that first good hot coffee to look forward to, right? Because even if I'd go to my like family mart to get a coffee, it was like really watered down coffee. It wasn't, I don't know.

- I've noticed the more I like, the more I like grow up, it's the little things in life that you need to look forward to. - It's the little things. - It is the little things. Like my mornings are 20% less happy if I don't have a coffee to look forward to. - Yeah, I just feel like my day is depressing. That's kind of about it really. - Yeah, yeah, exactly. - Well, that's like most days, so it doesn't really matter. - This episode is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Going online without ExpressVPN is like not having a case on your phone.

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how good their espresso is with the meal. - Oh yeah, of course. - It must end on an espresso. I feel at least like, you know. - Yeah, absolutely. - And you know, it was pretty good food. And I was like, not bad. - Have you found one that has a good espresso? 'Cause I've yet to find one yet. - There's one or two that, you know, if I see the actual espresso machine in the back, I'm like, nice.

You know it's gonna be good. 'Cause they've gone to the effort to get this ridiculously expensive machine just for this like one part of the meal. But I was eating there and the food was pretty good. I wasn't disappointed and I thought, well, fantastic. I'm gonna end my meal off with an espresso. And it said on the menu, it said espresso. It was a double or a single. And so I ordered the double espresso and they just brought out essentially an Americano.

- What? - And I said, I said like, "Oh no, no, I ordered the espresso." And they're like, "Oh no, no, that's the espresso." And I'm like, "What?" It's like this talk. I'm like, "That's not an espresso. And if it is, I'm gonna be having a heart attack." - It's like a triple double espresso. - I'm like, "What? Am I the asshole here? Are you gonna make me pay for this? I'm not paying for this." I paid for it, but you know,

- I didn't walk out. - Naturally I didn't complain and I paid for it, but that's not the point. I mean, I was very disappointed. - Was that at least a good Americana? - No, it was awful. That day onwards, I swore against ordering coffee in places where I couldn't visibly see an espresso machine in the establishment. I'm like, "Take me to the back, take me to the back. "Let's see what's going on, come on."

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- Aki's quite obsessed with TikTok. - Okay. - As most people are these days. - Yeah. - And like, I don't have like, 'cause I don't have TikTok installed on my phone, right? My only exposure to TikTok is watching it with Aki. - Yeah. - And this fucking thing where, you know those like fucking TikToks where it's like, "Amazon gadgets that changed my life part 71." Like, you know those, right? Fucking, they all sound the fucking same. There was one where it was literally this alarm clock

- All right, it's $400. It was this alarm clock that makes you a cup of coffee

- Oh, we had that in the 80s in the UK for tea. - Really? - Yeah, it was called a kettle mate. And you could set the alarm and it would pour a cup of tea for you when the alarm went off. This is not a new invention TikTok, fuck you. - So it was like, there's like a fucking, it looks like maybe it's about that big. - That's pretty massive. - It's pretty fucking large, but there's like the coffee mug there and then there's like a proper brewing thing on the side and you put in this like canister of milk in the morning and you lock it in.

And when the alarm goes off, it just straight up just makes you a fucking like- - The Nespresso machine is literally one button.

You could literally have that next to your bed. You don't need- - Yeah, exactly. That's what I was thinking. I was like, just get a fucking Nespresso machine and just put the fucking thing in and- - Do you want Nespresso? Please just sponsor us already. - Yeah, Nespresso. 'Cause the problem is, right, I feel like Nespresso is one of the best capsule machines, but I feel like in Japan, it's the only capsule machine that is actually good. - Because you could get the actual, the ones that actually you have to put the coffee grinded beans in, right? - The beans, yeah, yeah, yeah.

- I had one of those. - I had one of those as well. - Cleaning it is such a pain in the ass. - It's a bit of an effort, yeah. - Nespresso is like the perfect, I'm literally just fucking marketing for you right now. It is literally the easiest and like easiest to clean. It's just easy. - It's fully sponsored. - For the quality you get and for the convenience, it is really,

the best capsule machine. - Please sponsor us. - And I've owned a lot of capsule machines. - We bought one just for this office. - It was literally the first purchase that we made and we tried to get Geeks Plus to pay for it for us, but they wouldn't allow it so we paid for it. - Before we bought this table, we bought the Nespresso machine.

- We had our priorities, right? That's for sure. - Exactly. - Yeah, I remember when they gave us the spreadsheet of just like, okay. So they get, so Geeks Plus gave us a spreadsheet 'cause they said they would help us, not decorate the office, but furbish the office. And we were like, okay, tables, desk, television, not my space. - Espresso? - No, no, but there was a, it was split up in like, here's the list of the things we need and here's the list of the things we want. And we put espresso machine in the first thing on need

- We're like, no, no, you know what I'm saying geeks? We need this. - And Malin was like, do you really need this? Is this as necessary as the table? And we were like, yes, yes. - Without coffee, this podcast is not happening. - No, I'm sorry. - I'm not gonna film.

- I refuse to release episodes. - No, 'cause like another thing about Japanese like coffee shops as well is that there are so many independent coffee shops here in Japan. So if you ever come into Japan, you can walk down a random street and find like five to 10 different like indie coffee shops. And the problem is they all look fucking great. - Yeah, they do. - But it's such a coin flip on

whether it's going to be good coffee or not. 'Cause the fallacy is that, you know, like some of the best and posh looking coffee shops I've been to in Japan have just had the shittest coffee. - It's like acid. - It's like dirt water. 'Cause I remember like,

especially in like central Tokyo, like Nishizabu and like Kichijoji and stuff like that. There's like a lot of like really like fancy kind of like rustic looking coffee shops where the beans are all lined up and the place like- - They got the aesthetic down. - They got the aesthetic to a T. And then you order it and you're like waiting for this cup of coffee for like 20 minutes. And you're like, what are they picking the fucking coffee beans off the plant? Like it's taking so long. And what comes out is like-

- Shit. - Yeah. - Essentially. - It's just like dirt water sometimes. - It's like $12 please. - Yeah, it's fucking $12 for like this one. I thought you're like, 'cause especially going to America or something, you order like a cup of coffee and you just assume that it's refillable, right? It's that kind of level of quality. But in Japan you can have like the fucking like instant coffee dirt water and they give it to you in this like the poshest little cup and it's fucking tiny, it's $12.

And you're just there being like, I'm even more depressed than I was before I ordered this coffee. - That's why it's sad, right? It's sad that like Blue Bottle Coffee and Starbucks are like the best coffee in Japan. - It really is. - It's like going to any foreign country, be like, you know, McDonald's is the finest cuisine here. It's literally the best. Like don't eat anything else. Like it's so sad having to be like, the foreigners did it better than you.

and their fucking chains. - Just like, oh, you want some good fried chicken? Well, I know a place. It begins with a K. It's got my favorite kernel in front of it.

- It feels like you're admitting defeat when the big corporations are the best at something. - Yeah, yeah. - Oh, right, but that's what I mean when I say we truly do live in a tea society because they'll do green tea. - Our tea here is amazing. - Yeah, the tea here is fucking great. The green tea is obviously, but the other types of tea here, fucking fantastic, but they just...

It's just taking a little bit longer to perfect the coffee, I feel. - Although I will say there's some teas here where they're like, yeah, it's just like cherry flavor. And I'm like, I do not taste any tea in this. This is just cherry. They're like sweet teas where I can't taste the tea. And I'm like, what's the point in this? - See, I'm just not a tea drinker. - I love tea. - I only drink tea when I have afternoon tea. I don't drink tea.

- I guess Japanese tea is different, right? 'Cause when I think of tea, I think of hot tea. - Yeah, I think of like an Earl Grey or like a English breakfast and that kind of stuff, right? But like, yeah, I don't count green tea as like an afternoon tea. - I think afternoon tea is probably the only good British export that we've done.

- It's a British export that I'm proud of. - Yeah, I'm like, yeah. - Is there really nothing else? - I'm like racking my brain. I'm like, there has to be something else, right? - What else is there? - Stealing, I don't know. Like we stole a lot of stuff. - Pillaging. - Tuesday? - Tuesday. - Tuesday, YouTube. - A part of me dies inside whenever I go to like a restaurant that does like foreign, like European cuisine. And I see fucking fish and chips there.

I'm just like, why are you selling fish and chips? - The best fish and chips though I ever had was this British pub, British Irish pub called Hobgoblin in Shibuya. - Maybe ever, it's the best fish and chips you've ever had. - No, no, no, in Japan, in Japan, obviously. In Japan, 'cause every other fish and chips I've had is like, they vinegar the fuck out of the fish where it's just like, I'm not eating fish, I'm eating solid vinegar. - Nah, they should let you put the vinegar on yourself. - Yeah, right, but like there's places where they just like do it for you. - That's fucked up, that's not right. - Yeah, so like the vinegar is like,

inside the fucking meat of the fish. And I'm just like, this does not taste like fish. It tastes like vinegar. As much as I love vinegar, don't get me wrong. - What's the maximum you'd pay for fish and chips? - Abroad or in England? - That's just full stop.

- I mean, how big are we talking? Like a normal portion. - Like a normal portion like that? - That's why I was like, you know, when I went to this place- - Like 15, no, that's the most. - That's what I mean, right? They charged me 22, I'm still angry about this by the way. - Wait, $22 for a fish and chips? - $22 and it was mid chip, honestly. It was not very- - Wait, is that at the Welsh place? - Yeah, it was at the Welsh town. I'm sorry, I feel like I'm like completely ruining their like any foreign tourism they get now.

That fish and chips is a horror. And they increased the price. - "Welch Town" reviewed by a Welshman. - I'm still annoyed about it. 22 dollars. - 22 bucks is pretty ridiculous. - My mom, she probably slapped me if she saw that I handed money for that. It was like a five pound fish and chips as well. - Was it like a frozen Iceland fish and chips? - It wasn't good. It was like more batter than fish.

- That's what I've noticed whenever I've tried fish and chips that have not been from England. Of course, even in England, not every fish and chips you get is fucking good anyway. - A lot of them are shit. - I'd say 80% of fish and chips you get in England is shit anyway. So why would I trust it outside of England? - You gotta go to a nice pub, a nice fancy kind of pub that does like focuses on food a lot and they'll have fish and chips on the menu. It'll probably be fucking banging. They might have like triple deep fried fries as well. - Honestly, I wanna take you guys to the Hobgoblin

'cause it's like a proper barramundi like fish and chips. - I mean like the best fish and chips I've had is in Brighton and it's like- - Is that the one you took us to? - Bankers? - I believe so. - I can't remember. - Probably, probably. - They live next to a fucking ocean. - Yeah, it's 'cause we live next to the fucking sea, right? So that's like, it's good fish and chips because the fish is just fresh and you can taste it, it's fresh and it's like- - Yeah, the one you took us to in Brighton was easily the best fish and chips I've ever had. - But like even so, like there's something,

I feel weird whenever like, you know, you go to Japan and people like, yo, you can try the ramen, you can try the sushi, you can try all these different cuisines. And someone visits me in fucking England and I'm like, yo, you wanna get some fish and chips? Go to a local chip and go to a pub. And I'm just like, I- - That's where you're going wrong.

you immediately have to get them drunk so that they can't, so they don't focus on- - So they can't judge correctly. - Yeah, that's what I do. I'm like, let's go to the pub right away. Like, yeah, four beers in, you won't care what we're eating. - But like,

- The problem is when they stay, they're staying for like a week, right? 'Cause you're just like how many days in a row can they drink alcohol before they realize- - Tesco meal deal. - I'm gonna blow your mind with a Tesco meal deal. - Before they realize that there's just not much to our culture that we can show off to like tourists that visit us. That's what I think. - I mean, it's the same problem in Australia as well. Like after you have a kangaroo steak, there's literally nothing else.

It's like we have fish and chips as well, but like not as good. - Yeah, 'cause I think the one thing I've realized after moving to Japan or after moving outside of England and living in places like Thailand and Japan and stuff like that is that there's, to me in England, there's not much to do apart from drink.

- Right, if you don't drink- - Is that what happens when you live in a place or is that what happens when you like leave it and are aware? Like I wonder, do you know what there's much to do in Australia that you know of? - Other than going to the pub and going to the beach? Not really. - Fuck, it's depressing, isn't it? - At least we have really nice fucking beaches. - Yeah, at least you got that. We don't even have nice beaches. Like I am from- - My beach is very nice. There's plenty of free needles and-

and trash and everything. - I tell people, I grew up in a beach town, a beach city. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - It's Brighton. - It's Brighton shit. - Yeah. - I don't like Brighton. - We have pebble, like Brighton is the tourist beach in England, right? And it's like the worst beach. - It's pretty bad. - It's just rocks. - And I say that as someone who grew up in Brighton. I'm born and bred in Brighton. I'm just like, it's just a bunch of fucking rocks. You can't even go there barefooted, right?

- And to make matters worse, Brighton is just as expensive as London. So like, what's the point of like- - It didn't always, it wasn't always like that. - You're like, "God, they gentrified my- - I remember a time when Brighton was cheap." - You know, the way you could tell, this is like, I don't know if this is scientifically proven, but as far as I'm concerned, it is.

You can tell the costs of a town in the UK, 100%. Just go to the pub, see how much the beer is. - Yeah. - Really? - Yeah, go to any pub. - One pint. - How much is like the middle of the price pint? - Yeah.

- Right, right. - 'Cause in Brighton, it's like what? Like four pound 50, maybe five pounds. - Yeah, like four pound, five pound. It's like London prices. - That's on the expensive end. Where I'm from, it's like two pound 20. - Yeah. - Oh shit. - I talk to people though that are from the North or from Wales or something and they tell me about these magical- - Magical prices. - These magical two pound- - The mythical prices. - These magical two pound prices. - This sounds like one pound 80. - These magical two pound pints and I'm just like,

"What land are you from, sir?" Are you sure that's beer that you're drinking there? I'm sorry, I didn't know you grew up in fucking Narnia. What is this magical land that does not exist in England? - Bullshit, it doesn't exist. Also, to Americans as well, a pint is not an American pint, it's different to an American pint, which is also, American pint is the biggest scam ever, by the way. You guys got ripped off. I don't know why, when Americans took the pint from us, for some reason they made it smaller.

- We talked about this on the stream, didn't we? - Did we? Oh, okay. - Yeah, I'm pretty sure we did. - It's like a hundred milliliters less. You're losing a lot of beer there for no point. - It's the one time when Americans took something and made it smaller. - Yeah, right, what the fuck? - It's like 430 milliliters, I think, around that America, and a British pint is 568 milliliters. And yeah, you get a lot of beer for like really cheap. It's like the pint where I grew up is like $4.

- The pint where I grew up was $9. - That's a US- - Australian. - Wait, what's that in like real money? - It's $9 reduce. So what's that in USD? It's like $7 in US. - That's not too bad. That's about London prices then. - Yeah, it's probably about London prices, yeah. - Yeah, I mean, like I feel like it's growing up in the South in England, whenever I travel like further North and I see the prices, it's just like, I feel like I'm in a place

I feel great because no matter where I go in England, I'm paying either the same amount or less than I'm used to. - This is why probably Swiss people feel like the most superior people on earth. 'Cause everywhere they go, it's just like on sale. Like everything's cheap. You know what I mean? - That's why Australians love coming to Japan. They feel so rich.

- What do you mean it's only $1 for water? - Yeah, exactly. Well, I mean like, remember I found that fucking Izakaya in Shibuya where on, I think Tuesdays, it's not even a happy hour, but like all night it's 50 yen beers. - But like when you go to places like that, the beer, the scent doesn't taste right.

- Really? - I don't know if it's like the psychological effect of me thinking this is too good to be true. - Right, right, right. - But I find when the beer is mega cheap at these places in Japan, it tastes like water. - Yeah, but after 10 of them, you don't care. - I guess, yeah. - I mean, like for me, I remember going back to when we came here as a tourist, I'm just like, I'm gonna go to these like fucking cheap izakayas every fucking day. I'm gonna take advantage of this- - All you can drink, oh my God. - Like Namihodai, all you can drink fucking every weekend, izakaya, let's go guys. And now I'm just like-

And then Corona was like, no, no, no, no, no. - But also I just don't wanna be in pain every day. - Exactly. - But now that you're living here, you just feel like you kind of, there's so many other cool bars and other cool places you can go to. - Exactly. - That's, Izakaya just feels like. - I also rarely drink to get like drunk.

I feel like that's like, I normally get to the tipsy point and I'm like, right, I'm done. - Yeah, yeah, exactly. - It's also like- - I wanna be able to function the next day. I'm okay now. - We're too busy. - Yeah, basically. - No, 'cause now I see Nomihodai and I'm just like, ah, well, I could drink as much as I want, but do I need to anymore? - And then there's always the thing of like, all right, I've been drinking beer all night, do I really wanna swap to spirits?

- I don't know, I don't wanna chug beer either. Like I wanna like myself. - I remember the first time I went to an Izakaya and they were like, would you like just Tampi like just one by one or do you want Nomi Hoda? And the part where I was like, I think I'll just go Tampi tonight. Somewhere inside my head I was like, you've changed.

- How dare you? What happened to you, man? You used to be cool. Like if you were asked no mi hodai, not even a moment of hesitation, you'd be like, of course no mi hodai. Yeah, like I had the exact same moment as well when I'm just like, I remember thinking to myself, whenever I moved to Japan, I'm never not going to say no. Me, say no to all you can drink beers? Really? And now I'm just like,

- Really? All you can drink? - I forget you're 30 going fuck man. I feel like I'm gonna be so much worse than you at 30. I'm gonna be like fucking awful to hang out with. - Is it true that like your entire view on everything just changes the moment you hit 30? 'Cause that's all I've been hearing about. - Is it true you become a fucking boomer when you get 30? - Start hating every young person? - No, because like I've heard from so many people who are now in their 30s where like it was literally, I don't know if it's like- - I identify as a 30 year old. - Yeah.

- When does the dust start falling? - I don't know if it's like placebo or whatever, where you just like overthink it, but like so many people are like, yeah, the moment I hit 30, it's just like everything, like I just stopped giving a shit about so much shit. - I mean, I feel 30.

- I'm the opposite, I don't feel 30 at all. Honestly, I don't feel like I've changed much at all. - I wonder how you can do like, I don't know, I feel like I'm struggling to keep up sometimes when people wanna party and I'm like, "All right, fine, I'll go." - No, I'm right there as well. - And I'm like, "Well, I'll force myself to drink." But half the time, I'm like, "My heart's not in it."

You know, my heart's not there, you know. - And I'm still up there like 5:00 AM or whatever. - I'm always in bed by like three now and Garnt will be like, yeah, I stayed up until 9:00 AM and I started just doing work at 10. - You're up till three? Dude, it's like 11:30 AM. - So he's napping in the karaoke. - Yeah, I'm like 60. - Yeah, sad life. - Yeah, I don't know. Like, I don't feel like I've changed at all. I'm almost 31 now and I feel like I just,

- I feel like I'm still fucking 25, 23. I mean, you still look 25. - You're gonna be like the fucking old anime character that's like the most fun to hang out with. And he teaches you some cool shit and then he sacrifices himself casually later on. - You're gonna be the old man who like looks really small but the moment he takes his shirt off, it's jacked. - Netero, basically. - I mean, from what I've heard from just other people who are older than me, they just told me that your 30s is just basically your 20s with one debuffed your body.

- I guess my hangovers- - What's the debuff for you? - I guess my hangovers are slightly worse now. That's the only reason. The only reason I drink a fuck ton more wine now, 'cause I don't know what it is. It's funny, right? 'Cause when I was like 18 to like 20- - I was up to 10:30, you go, you're like, "Beer, vodka?" Nah.

- The moment you turn 30, I have a wine cooler and it's fully stocked. - That was exactly me when I was 30. I'm just like, yes, I only drink wine now, thank you very much. Beer, ugh, get that teenage shit out of there. - The next step is gonna be like wine, cognac for me, please. - Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I drink wine because one, I like the taste and two, because,

for some reason the hangovers for wine are just like way more bearable. - No, seriously. I was like, I remember 'cause like, yeah, exactly. Like when I was in my teens and like early twenties, I was like, wine, fuck you. - I would get the worst hangovers on wine, especially red wine. Like I swear I had like fucking Vietnam flashbacks from drinking red wine at university, right? - Thai man gets it.

Like the hangovers there were like fucking unbearable. And then I hit like 27 and I'm like, Ooh, this kind of feels warm and fuzzy. - I didn't even have those like NAMM flashbacks. Cause like, I didn't even like, I didn't even drink wine. - Making that a thing.

- 'Cause I didn't even, I wasn't even interested in drinking wine. Like, you know, in my early twenties, 'cause my dad is like a fucking heavy wine drinker. So he's always like, you know, try this nice red wine. - He was Australian, so. - Yeah, of course, all Australians love their wine, right? Yeah, they all love their wine. - Loads of wine grown in Australia. - Yeah, absolutely. This is a great wine now, you know, now that I can drink wine, it's like, oh yeah, this is fucking fantastic. But you know, when you're like 21, 22 and you drink a glass of red, you're like, oh God, like,

and not get used to this at all. - Maybe we drink more wine if we grew it in the UK, but unfortunately I think the only place they make wine in UK are prisons. So I don't really think they have much choice. - I think UK does make some wines. - Is that considered wine or is that just like grape juice with attitude?

- As well, you just get it from France, right? So why would you make your own when everyone's gonna be like, we literally have France. - Yeah, exactly. I didn't realize how lucky I had it until I moved to a country that is not well, I mean, they produce sake here, they do produce wine, but it's not as well known. I didn't know how good we had it where you can just go to a fucking local co-op or Tesco's and buy great wine that is like triple the price here in Japan. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - And it tastes- - Wine kinda sucks here.

- Yeah, that's the problem, right? You have to go to like a specialist wine place 'cause like if you go to fucking Family Mart or Seven, it's like you're just basically picking poison if you drink cheap wine here. It's basically just bottled rat poison. - We have such first world problems.

We're just like concerned about the quality of the wine. Listen, what happened to us, man? - I don't know, man. Well, I didn't, I would say I started drinking way more wine because of Corona. And because, you know, when you're stuck inside, you gotta find an interest in something, right? - You gotta make your own fun. - It's just like a narrator, it's like, "Go on to something, take up a new hobby, alcoholism." - No, but like, it's incredible because like,

it's the first time ever where I drank something like a heavy, heavy amount. And I wake up the next morning, I'm like, I'm alive.

- That's the thing, right? Is that I feel like that's a one-off, right? I feel like that's being shot and it like misses a vital organ. That's what I, when you drink. - No, no, no, no, no, no. It's happening multiple times. - For me, like if I just stay on wine and I just, I don't mix drinks, wine hangovers are the most bearable. - For me, it's like beer is like always worst stomach ache. - It's gin for me. - Sake, always the worst headaches. Sake, it's like,

Hangover tier list, okay? - Hangover tier list. - Hangover tier list, let's go. Okay, so right at the top, I don't fuck with this at all, Sake. - Sake, yeah, hands down. - Is S tier here the strongest? - S tier is like the shit, like the worst hangover. - Or shall we do the opposite? - Yeah, it should be the opposite. - Okay, well, Sake is like fucking Z tier. I remember when Chris was last on this podcast and we went to the Izakaya afterwards. - Just like one shot of Sake is enough to give me a hangover.

- Yeah, like I had- - If I'm drinking something else, but sake has even entered my body once, it completely contaminates my body. It's like, fuck you, Connor. - Yeah, I remember we went to the Izakaya like literally the hour afterwards and I was on beer the entire night and then Chris was just like, "Let's get some sake, right lads?" And I remember having like one cup of sake and then,

I was just like gone the next day. I don't know why I could see your brain powering down as you drank it. It's like, - He had the audacity to be like, this is great sake. It wasn't great, it was fucking awful. I've had good sake that was just slightly bearable and this shit was awful. It tasted like just like going off in your mouth. Like it was something just going stale. It would hit your body terrible. Be ashamed of yourself. - Yeah, like the, I've never had worse headaches in my life after a night of just drinking sake. - Yeah.

- Sake is by far the worst. - Tequila's up there. - Just above that is like all the fucking spirits. - Tequila's the worst one. - I'd say tequila's the worst one, yeah. - I would say tequila and Sambuca are like on that level, right? - I feel bad for our Muslim fans that can't watch this now.

- I wouldn't know. - I'll take your word for it. - Because like tequila and Sambuca for me are like, they're the student shots. They're what you get as a student because- - Fuck it, Sambuca? Who drinks that all night? Fuck, a psychopath drinks Sambuca. - What even is Sambuca? - Exactly, you don't know. - I don't even know it. - It's that one drink that your mate is like, "Yeah, let's get this drink." And then you have it and you're like, "Bah!" - What is it? - It's like a licorice shot. - Yeah, it's fucking awful. - Oh, is it like Jager?

- Oh, I was about to, okay. - It's on the same level. - On the same level, but like going above that, I would say is Jager, right? 'Cause they're all like, they're all the shots where you know you wake up and you can pinpoint the exact moment the night went wrong. It was the exact moment someone ordered like a round of Jager shots or a round of Sambuca shots or tequila shots. And for some reason, Meilyne fucking loves tequila and I- - I will never understand that. I will literally never understand that.

- What about the taste? - What about the taste? - No, I don't like it. - It's good. You don't like the taste, so why do you like to keep it? - There's other alcohol you could use that for. - That's a concerning sentence.

- No, we don't because we can't relate. 'Cause it tastes like ass. And the first, I mean, look, the only time where I was like, okay, tequila is kind of fun, is the first time you do with the whole salt thing, right? - Yeah. - The whole salt thing. - The salt and lime thing is like-

- It's like a little event. - I've realized if you're like a student, which is like when you start trying all these drinks, if you had some kind of fucking quick time event to it, drinking becomes like 10 times more fun. - Yeah, exactly. - Because you're a fucking idiot. - Yeah, exactly. - Like there was a, fuck, in Swansea when I went to university, there was this one bar that would do these drinks with Sambuca where they would light it on fire and then like put the like a wine- - Oh, gas chamber. - Yeah, that's what it's called, which is not a very flattering name.

It's called a gas chamber, which is terrible. And so they would do it for like one pound 50, right? Which is like $2.50. - I didn't know it was legal in the UK. - I don't know if it is, but they served it to me. - 'Cause the only time I've been able to do that is not in the UK, but it's when we go on like fucking- - It might be illegal, but you know how the bars are in the UK.

- You know how the bars are. - You know how some of the student bars are. It feels like it's like World War III in some of these bars. People are throwing up everywhere. They're serving drinks to people they shouldn't be. But like, yeah, they would light the Sambuca on fire and put a wine glass over it to extinguish the fire. - I've seen those. - Yeah, and then they would put the wine glass on the table really quickly and then you would chop the thing and then you'd have to breathe in the fumes from the wine glass. And it would go straight to your head.

- I've done those before. Okay, I've had sambuca before. - You know these like student shots, right? - Don't do it, don't do it. It's terrible. - Because even with like tequila, right? You lick the salt, do the tequila and do the lime, right? Somehow like fucking students have found a way to make this like even more messed up because- - Are you talking about the kamikaze shot? - Did you call it the kamikaze shot? Or the suicide shot? - Yeah, suicide or kamikaze shot. - What is this?

- Okay, so instead of, okay, so the normal- - It sounds like a Jackass stunt. - It is, it fucking is. So the normal order you go in is that you lick the salt, you do the tequila shots and then you suck on the lime. - I like it, it makes it bearable. - So, okay, how about this?

how about instead of licking the salt, you snort the salt. - That sounds stupid. - And then you take the shot and instead of sucking on the lime, you just put it in your eyes. Who the fuck thought of this? - So I'm thinking about a new challenge. It's the shoot yourself in public challenge. Just shoot yourself on the train and just see how long you can last. - I had a friend on my 18th birthday who did that three times. - Why? - Because we were playing darts and he was like, he was so fucking cocky about it. He was like,

I'll beat you. Like I practice every fucking day and I'm like, you're like seven shots in, like you're not gonna fucking beat me. - I totally understand people like, I don't want drinks. When I hear about this shit, I'm like, why would you? - Oh no, absolutely. - We don't encourage viewers. - This is the kind of behavior. - This has always been a fucking step level beyond me. - This is like people who did like vodka shots through their eyeball.

- Oh yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - It's just like, what's wrong with people? What the fuck is wrong with people? - You have a perfectly functioning mouth, just use it. - Like for me, I feel old whenever, you know, maybe I've always been old because like anytime I've heard like a story like that, I'm just like, who the fuck thinks this is cool? Do you have brain damage? It's like, what went wrong in your life to think that doing a vodka shot in your eye was,

- Right, because this is why, this is the aspect I hated about being in university is that like, they would be like, "Yeah, so you do the vodka shot in your eye." And I'm like, "Why?" And then they'd be like, "Oh, 'cause it gets you drunk quicker." I'm like, "This literally takes five minutes. Just drink it." And then I'm the fucking weirdo out of the group 'cause I'm the one who doesn't want to shot a fucking vodka in my eye. I'm the asshole. - Yeah, next thing you know, they'll be like, "Yeah, I took like some fucking ethanol and I fucking just injected it into my veins."

It was fucking rock and roll, man. That was metal as fuck. And I'm just like, what? - At what point do we acknowledge that this is just stupid shit that no one should be doing? - As someone who's done a shoeie a couple of times in their life, I can't really say anything, unfortunately. That's probably the most fucked up one I've done yet. - Degenerates. - This episode of Trash Taste is sponsored by Harry's. With Harry's, you don't have to choose between a great shave and a fair price because you can get both.

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maybe there are just better ways to get drunk other than doing these shots. I don't know. - I don't know, you just kind of be like, do I wanna be drunk? - I remember I used to think like, I would look at like all the dads at a pub, right? And I'm just like, they're just so,

sitting there talking with a beer in their hand. That doesn't sound fun. And now I'm just like, I wish for that more than anything right now. - Exactly right. I remember thinking like when I was in university, I remember thinking, I'm never gonna be like that. I'm gonna still be doing shots when I'm 50, let's go. - I was like that when I was like 22, I just gave up at like 21. I finished with university, time to be a boring functioning adult.

- Terrible, isn't it? - Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I remember recently I went to my, like some of my first wine events, went to a wine tasting event and that's how you know. - That's how you privilege. - That's how you know you're making money. - That I've reached that age when I'm just like, okay, how about wine tasting? - It's like, yay. - And yeah, I remember taking Connor to one as well, one time and like,

- So this one time, like the people at this wine event are exactly the people you expect to be at this wine event. Everyone's like, everyone's in like the fucking forties or fifties. Everyone's like a fucking investment banker or something, you know, something with a- - With a monocle and top hat. - That's basically like the main guy running the event is like this really old French dude who you could see in like a monocle and top hat, right?

And I remember, so I was with Sidney. And so he was, you know, it's like a very intimate event. So he would go around asking people what they do. And of course, when they go to us, we mentioned YouTuber and like, obviously people perk the fuck up, right? - Right, right. - And of course he goes to Sidney and asks what she does. And Sidney very just very tastefully says that, you know, she does videos about anime and manga and Japanese culture. And then he asks her for her YouTube channel.

and she gives it to him. And then he goes, "Oh, let me just search this up." And I've never seen like the life flash before someone's eyes as fast as I've seen Cindy go, "No, no, no, no, no, no, don't do that, don't do that." But the best part was. So at this wine event, it's a room full of people, very prim and proper. It's a very...

- I would say it is a very posh room. - Yeah, of course. - And so we go up to have like our, I think like our third or fourth glass of wine that we're trying. And so there's this word in French that means cheers. - You say it in English as well though. - Do you? - Yeah, you say it in the UK as well. - Okay, so it's that joke that the guy makes every single fucking time because it's like a very obvious joke, right? So he goes, "Okay, everyone,

Everyone say chin chin. And then the entire room is just silent except I just hear next to me, Sydney go. - It is not quiet at all. She's burst out going. And everyone just starts laughing at Sydney. I remember just sitting there like, fuck. I'm with those guys.

- Oh my God. - To be fair, it is pretty funny. - Yeah, in the UK people are like chin chin. - Yeah, chin chin. - Yeah, it's like chung. - Did you ever say that? - Yeah, in the UK people always say chin chin, like before you down a pint or something, like chin chin, and you down it. - I've never heard that before. - Maybe it's like a northerner thing. I don't know, people always said that. - They say that in Italy too, don't they? - In Italy as well? - Yeah, I believe so. - Maybe that's where we got from,

- Yeah, anyway. - 'Cause I remember the first time I heard it was when I went to Italy. - Oh God, we didn't explain the joke. If you don't know, chin chin sounds like oh chin chin, which means penis in Japanese.

- So basically you're just saying pee-pee. - Yeah, he's saying pee-pee. - And Sydney of course, being the mature woman that she is, laughed. - To be fair, the first time I heard it, I fucking burst out laughing too. I was like, you gotta be taking the piss. - Was it like some really fancy hotel where there's literally security every 10 meters to check where you're in the right place? And then Sydney just fucking.

- Wait, what? - It was in like some fancy hotel or something. - Oh my God. - Yeah. - I always feel really out of place. I'm just like a child, so I'm like- - Yeah, right? - I'm like, I don't belong here. - Whenever I go to like any fancy restaurant, it doesn't matter where it is, I'm just like,

I shouldn't be here. - Yeah, exactly. - In a fucking t-shirt and I'm like, "What's going on?" I'm here to taste the wine. - Yeah, I just wanted wine. I felt like every time I go to one of those events or especially like a company party, I never feel more self-conscious than whenever everyone around me is just wearing suits and I'm just like... - Meanwhile, I had to bust out this like fucking suit.

wrinkly ass like college shirt from like the bottom of my wardrobe. I was just like, oh fuck. - It's great. You can go to these events and then people will tell you about how rich their parents are. It's really fun. I love it. It's great. - Great. - It's just so depressing. It's like, I wanna fucking hear about how your dad owns 10 companies. Fuck off.

- You guys should have like gone in the fucking JoJo suits, right? You should have just like fully committed, like proper like wear a monocle and like a top on everything. - I don't think monocles have been in fashion since the fucking play. - You can bring it back. - Bring it back. - Bring it back. - I'll bring back monocles. - Bring back the monocle. - Just cosplay the Monopoly man. - Exactly. - Fake mustache and everything. - I wanna get gray hair so I can become the Monopoly man before it falls out.

- And drink wine. - Yeah, exactly. - Oh my God. - How the fuck did we get on this topic? - I don't know. Well, we didn't address the hangover tier list. By the way, I'll just do it for you right now. Gin is number one, wine is second, beer's in the middle, and then all the other weird spirits are down below, and then right at the bottom is sake. There you go, boom. So there you say we did not finish that tangent. Fuck you. - Yeah. - On to the next one. What's the next topic? - What's the next tangent? - We are on next, boys. - Evian water spray.

- Let's explain that. - Are we talking about that? Okay. - Yeah, let's explain that. - So what happened? - Meilin is like. - So yesterday I get there's a very ominous message from Meilin. - Right. - Okay. - When is Meilin's message is not ominous? - Oh yeah. - Okay, okay.

- So I get this very ominous message from Meilyne just saying, "Hey, tomorrow can I try something on you at the office?" - That's never a good thing. - What the fuck is going on here right now? And she's just like, "Yeah, I have this like ultrasound thing that I wanna put on your face or something like that." - It's for the baby, right? - Is that what that was? Yeah, I guess so. Meilyne, do you wanna explain what it was? - It's like an ultrasound thing, right? - No, it's like ultrasonic.

- You're just putting buzzwords together. - The only time you hear ultrasonic is in a Sonic game. - That is literally just a sponsorship script. It's got ultrasonic buzzword. - I have it right here. It is an Evian facial spray. - This is to wet your face. - That's just to wet my face. - How much does this cost?

- How much does this cost, Maylene? - That looks like a vibrator. - That does look like a vibrator. - That does. How much does this cost? - I don't know, I got it for free. - From who? - From a sponsor. - Who's giving out Evian?

- Costco? Wow. - Costco. I didn't even know they had Evian water spray before. So yeah. So for some reason I just agreed to it and said, yes, whatever, do whatever you need to do, Meilyne. And so she puts this gel on my face and then starts rubbing that- - It doesn't- - Wait, wait, no, no, no. First she sprays the Evian, the Evian.

- Facial spray, which I think is just water. - It's literally Evian in a can. - She just sprayed Evian water on my face, put a gel in it and just did a fucking ultrasound on my face. And apparently we are never getting a sponsorship from Evian ever again. - It's literally just going back and forward. That's all it's doing. It's literally that's all it's doing. How is that doing anything? - Do you need gel?

- You know, if I actually just got what? Like a pregnancy. Is that what you're doing? You're like seeing if his face is pregnant. - That's what it felt like. It felt like she was going to like, she was like fucking doing ultrasound on my face. - I wanna start a business where I just put my mouth against your cheek and just scream and call it a therapy.

- The vibrations will heal any kind of impurities you have. - Yeah, so basically before we started recording this episode, Malien was like, "I'm just gonna do half of Garnt's face "so that the boys can see the magic and wonder "of the before and after." - Could not tell the difference. - Yeah, we're probably never gonna get a sponsorship from Evian, but it looked the fucking same. - Can you tell the difference in my face from my usual camera? - The left side of his face was just a little bit more moist than the other side. That's all it was.

I don't know what this is supposed to do, but...

- Does it though, Maylene? Or are you just led to believe it works? - It's for gullible people who wanna believe there's a solution for everything. And sometimes you're just ugly. That's how it is. Like that happens. I gotta deal with that. - No amount of Evrian water spray will save you from your ugliness. - No amount of Evrian is gonna fucking fix my problems. You know what I mean? Like it's just, it's fucked. - That's the thing. If this truly fixed your ugliness, like no one would be ugly. 'Cause everyone would just buy this. - I will now end world ugliness.

- It's been real quiet since I dropped, man. - Evian's like, "We're here to save the day." - We're about to put the fashion industry out of business. Everyone is gonna be a model after we bring out water spray to the scene.

- There's so much stuff like that where I'm like, I'm sure it works as like 0.1%, but how much is it like a negligible amount where you're like, is it worth my time? How good does it have to be where I have to sit there and rub my face and spray Avian on it? You know what I mean? How good do the results have to be? - There are just some things where it's like, I get the intent as to why this was invented, but it's also like, there are so many other alternatives that work just as well and are probably a lot cheaper.

- Yeah. - You know what I mean? Like, oh, I mean, look, like going back to the whole like fucking Amazon things you didn't, you know, you needed thing, right? Like that is a prime example. Like that is just like a bunch of people with like way too much money who are just going onto Amazon, buying all these fucking like things. Like I remember there was one- - It's just sad, 'cause I mean, it's just like, they just, they feed off the insecurities that people have. Like it's those like, like they have those weight loss bracelets. Have you seen those?

- What? - Apparently just a bracelet that has like magnets in it or something that apparently like, - Oh yeah. - Makes you lose weight. And the before and after pictures are the fucking egregious. It'll be like the most obese person. And then apparently because of this one bracelet, which they probably can't even get on their hand, how exaggerated this is. - It starts off as a ring. - Yeah, it's like, apparently this magically makes you extremely hot. Doesn't address the problem with that if you go from like 500 pounds to 200 pounds, where's the skin gone?

- Yeah, exactly. - What I love is when you see the before and after pic and it's so obviously not the same person. - Yeah, I love those. - It's just like someone so morbidly obese that they think that because they now have a six pack, you can't recognize that it's just not the same person.

- The lighting's totally off, the belly button's totally different, there's no hair. - One thing I always find funny is why always in the before pic, does the cameraman just say, "Look as depressed as you can." - It's a subconscious thing. - You're smiling, why are you smiling? This is the before pic. - Yeah, I mean in the UK they're just depressed in both.

It's just like subconscious, right? If you see someone smiling, your fucking dumb monkey brains thing. Oh, good. - Yeah. - That's a good thing. - Good thing happened. - Good thing happened. - Good thing happened here. I don't know. I get really sad when I know that like clearly someone's buying this stuff. And like the detox teas, they just make you shit yourself.

It's just like shitting yourself. Of course you're gonna lose weight 'cause you're shitting out all the stool that you have in there. Of course you are gonna lose weight, but it's just sad that people feel desperate enough and they can't just believe the fact that it's like, just eat less.

- Sometimes it's not that simple though, I know. But that's the core of it though. - Just eat less. - Don't get cyber bullied, just turn off the PC. But like that, it sucks. - Just don't get hungry. - But that's what it is, the fundamental of it is just like eat less shit.

- Obviously there are exceptions and then someone will be in the comments being like, "I have X condition." Yeah, okay, good. But like fundamental of is it, don't buy this bullshit, you know? It's so stupid. - Yeah, but that's the thing. It's like the people who are buying into that kind of stuff, usually, that's all it is. Like all they need is just like a change of diet or just something so fucking easy. And yeah, they're just like, "Just don't be fat."

- Listen, listen, I can vouch for the chicken and broccoli diet. It works, it works wonders. The chicken and broccoli diet is no joke. It worked wonders for me. - A simple payment of 6.99. - Trade offer. - Trade offer. - You get chicken and broccoli, you lose weight. It's simple as that. Literally. - I get 79.99, you get chicken and broccoli.

- I need a chicken and broccoli company team up with me. I will show up dude. - Is there a chicken and broccoli company? - There actually is on Uber eats around our area. There is a thing. - Yeah, yeah. - Actually, I actually ordered it. - It was pretty fucking good. - There was literally a chicken and broccoli chain that just delivers chicken and broccoli. This is how it works guys. It's not fun, but weight loss isn't fun. It's like, it doesn't need to be. - I feel like, I mean, it's sad that, you know, sometimes in like self-improvement a bit

a big factor in whether it's gonna succeed or not is if you're fucking enjoying yourself doing it. It's unfortunate, right? But like for me, like for example, going to the gym versus going to do like a sports or going to do like another active activity, right? That's like doing the activity is way more fun than spending even like I could do three hours or something of a sport versus

30 minutes on the treadmill and I choose like a three hour sport anytime. - But that's the thing. Like that's why I think Nintendo is like giga brain when they release Ring Fit. 'Cause that is literally the answer to like, you can lose weight and have fun. - But this is like a- - I say that having never played it.

- But I plan to get it. I plan to get it. This has been sold out for a while. - The big problem that we have been like believing for so long with weight loss, and this is like mainly like, I know this is like fucking conspiracy. Literally it's like the company- - Disclaimer, none of us are weight loss experts. - Don't take our advice. - But it's like, you know,

big companies like Coke, McDonald's and all them. They're like, yeah, dude, you can drink as much Coke as you, you can eat as much McDonald's as you want. All you gotta do is just exercise. It's not the food, it's exercise. And it's like exercise doesn't really do that much for weight loss. It's like, but what weight loss, what I find personally what exercise does do is the day when I exercise, I am like vigilant about what I'm eating.

I'm like, no, no carbs here. Like no sugar. - For me the day when I exercise for some reason, I just- - You take care of yourself. - Yeah, I actually crave healthy food. I don't know what it is about, but like if I go to the gym for an hour, that day afterwards, I'm just like, man, I'm kind of just craving a chicken breast.

Like fuck this pizza, fuck the curry or whatever. But like when I'm just like being a couch potato, just like sitting in all day, you're just like, oh, I feel like shit. So I kind of just feel like I'm gonna eat shit. - Yeah, I feel like going to the gym or like just exercising in any way you can is like, it's not so much the act of losing it. It's just like the motivation. - Yeah, it's good for, obviously it helps

you know, general fitness and being healthy and it's good. I'm not saying it's bad, but like, I feel like we have definitely been like believed- - It's not the cream of the crop. - Yeah, we've also just been like told when we were growing up, right? That if you, well, if you eat 10 donuts, just burn off the calories and then boom, no damage. That's not how it works. - 10 donuts, 10 kilometers on the treadmill, right? - It's not how it works though, unfortunately. - Trade agreement. - Yeah, trade agreement.

- You lose 10,000. - You receive 10 donuts, I receive 10 kilometers on the treadmill. - It sucks 'cause it's like at the end of the day, you could go in the gym and distract yourself with it, but it comes to that moment where you're sitting on the couch or you're wondering what to eat and you've gotta just have the willpower to be like, "Chicken and broccoli, fuck."

- Yeah, exactly. - It sucks 'cause it's like not fun. - It is all diet. I mean, I feel like whenever you do any kind of self-improvement activity, it's not the days where you feel good that's gonna define if you basically succeed, it's the days where you feel bad and you're able to push yourself through. And I say this being like, I've had plenty of times when I have failed because I felt bad and I just didn't,

just not even the motivation to push myself through. I just didn't have the self-discipline 'cause I feel like self-discipline is way more important than motivation because there are gonna be some days where you are just not motivated and it's those days where you can push through. And I know plenty of people who have, I'm not one of them, unfortunately. - It's like as well, I found that like when I was, it's easy to like eat really healthy for like two weeks. I know not easy, but it's doable.

But then it's like, all right, well, if you just go right back to doing what you were doing, it's like, well, nothing's changed. - Well, that's where the bounce back happened. - Well, I mean, that's why I was just like, what can I cut out that is like, I can keep out like forever. So I don't drink like soft drinks ever. - Yeah, no, yeah. - That was like one thing that's like cut that shit. - Yeah, the last like, since probably the beginning of quarantine, I've just made a conscious effort to not drink any like fizzy drinks or anything. - Juice and shit like that I don't drink either. - Tea and water. It's tea, water, coffee is all I'm fucking drinking. - Yeah, I mean, I...

I was lucky enough that I just never craved like soda or anything in my life. I've just always grown up on drinking water. And it's kind of made me realize that man, the habits you had as a kid really just like, it's so much- - They stick with you man. - Yeah, they stick with you. It's so much easier to learn a habit once than to unlearn it and to learn something else. And I feel like so much of my life, if I had a time machine, if I could fucking isekai myself back into like a younger body, there's so many things I would do to be like, okay,

you learn this, you learn this habit, you learn that habit so you don't have to fucking unlearn it. And like have like a fucking year of your life being like, well, I have this shitty habit that I just had as a kid and it's kind of fucking me over and I wanna try and do something else, but God damn, this pizza feels so fucking good right now. - It's not even like I don't even eat that shit anymore. I most certainly do. I kinda like trying to balance it out how much I do eat.

- Yeah, it's not like an everyday thing, right? - I hate talking about this shit online 'cause everyone's just a fucking expert about it. Like in the comments, no doubt there'll be like 10 people who'd be like, "I'm a nutritionist expert. "I'm here to tell you that you're totally wrong." 'Cause everyone's got their own opinion 'cause most people have gone through it. Most people have seen what's worked for them. - But that's the thing, it's what's worked for them, right? And that doesn't mean it works for everybody. - As long as you do it healthfully, you're not starving yourself. You see some people who are like, "Yeah, I lost 10 kilograms in a week." And it's like, "That sounds like a terrible idea."

- What did you do? That sounds awful. - That must have been some painful shit. - Yeah, shit out of air. - Yeah, I mean, I feel like it's, I think one important thing is that just because something worked for someone doesn't necessarily mean it's gonna work for something else. And it's really like, what I found is it's really a trial and, what was it like? - Trial by fire? - An error? - Trial and error. - Trial by fire. - Trial by fire. - You either die or you die.

- You either eat this or you fucking die. - You either try or try dying. - How about just try starving yourself? You either lose weight or you die. - I used to be like fucking paranoid about like, well, what's in this thing? But I just started thinking like, if I just eat a reasonable amount of things and exercise, I think I'll be all right. And that kind of worked.

I was like carbs, I eat a lot of carbs, but like I just eat them within reason. Like my meals are never too big. Like I feel like I eat a fair amount of food. Like I feel like when I stopped giving a shit about calories and stuff like that and just thinking like, is this portion stupid? Is this a whole large Domino's pizza? Do I, should I eat this? Probably not. So I'm probably not gonna do it.

- But I feel like another thing is that, I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I think I just enjoy food too much. - That's the problem. - That's the problem. It's not like I enjoy eating a lot of food, right? But we talked about it. - I do. - Yeah, I mean, we talked about enjoying the little things in life every now and again. And for me, like my day is like 70% worse if I know I don't have a good meal to look forward to. - This is why I've just become an Uber Eats slave at this point. Like I, every day I order from Uber Eats

- That's the problem, right? - It's terrible. - But especially because Japan is just the land of fucking great food everywhere. Food's become a hobby at this point. - Yeah, yeah. - Oh, it is. - Where I'm just like, if I don't have a good meal, that's like, I feel not,

- I feel empty. - I feel like my day is just like, yeah, completely empty. I feel unfulfilled. I go to sleep and I'm just like, I'm sad. I have nightmares. - I had the worst Uber Eats order of my life the other day. It was fucking tragic. It was like, the pictures looked amazing. The ratings were good, you know? And it was a pork bowl, boudinon. And it looked very nice, you know? And this place only did pork bowls. I thought, great, they specialize in this one thing. It's gonna be fucking magical.

So I order it, you know, and it takes a little while. Not like crazy amount. And then so it gets here and you know, it's packaged amazingly. It looks like, you know, they've really cared about like the packaging, you know, give you an Oshibori. - Oshibori, yeah. - You know, right? - A little wet towel. - Like an actual, like, like thick one. - Oh, like a proper one. - Like a thick one. - Oh, like the rolled up one. - Yeah, like real thick ones. And I was like, damn, this is- - Ooh, fancy. - I was getting real excited for this. I'm like, hell yeah. Okay, they give their own chopsticks, really nice chopsticks as well. I'm like, damn.

So I'm like, I opened this bad boy up. It looks pretty good. It's pretty good. And I'm like, okay, fantastic. So I dig in and I'm like, oh no. And I'm like, okay, this part of the rice is kind of hard. I was like, all right, well maybe, you know, maybe it's just this one section happens and it clumps up, right? And so I hit another part and I'm like, oh no, this part's hard too. And then I put it in another part and it's hard and I go, maybe she needs a little force. Maybe she needs a little, she had to pull it apart a little bit. And I picked this up with like the whole bolt

and I go to just pick what I think is a small amount of rice and the whole rice comes out. I picked the bowl up, the whole bowl formed comes out. And no joke, this is where I started getting a little angry. I started like, I had my chopsticks like this in my hand, like a barbarian, stabbing it and like ripping it apart. And I couldn't rip it apart.

So I shovel the meat on top to one side and this is where I just get, I was like Bob Herriam. I literally tried to grab it with my hands to see if I could separate this rice. I could not separate this rice with like my full grip. - Was it like not even cooked or what? - I don't know what the fuck they did to it. And I gave them one stars and I was like, literally don't give me a brick next time.

And they said, sorry- - It's a literal brick of carbs. - They were like, "Sorry you didn't like it, we'll improve next time." I'm like, "Give me a refund! I couldn't eat it!" I didn't even get a fucking refund either. And it ruined my whole night 'cause it was like 9:00 PM and everywhere had closed. And I was like, "Well, I can't order anything now. Now I'm just gonna fucking eat a sembei or some shit." - You gotta resort to fucking-

convenience store food. - Yeah, I ate a sandwich and it was so depressing. You know how depressing it is eating- - That's depressing. That's so depressing. - A sandwich at 9:00 PM. - A lunch sandwich as a dinner is the, there's something about it. It's so depressing. I don't know why. Just having a ham sandwich for dinner. - It is depressing. - Bon appetit.

I say having a meal to look forward to. I don't even mean like a fucking five-star gourmet meal. - No, no. - Just like a good filling meal. - Just something that makes me like meal. - Just something on a plate, you know? A decent thing on a plate. - I tear up when I order a meal here and it's just, it's, yeah.

- I remember going back to Uber Eats, I remember there's this Thai place that I ordered from whenever I'm like a missing home or whatever. - Is it the one that we get? - I have no idea. - It's the really, oh, I like it. - It's really fucking good. I order them like four times a week. - Yeah, same. - It's so good. - The pad thai there is fucking bomb. - That's a lot of Thai food. - I never get sick of pad thai. - But like I get the craving every now and again 'cause I'm very picky when it comes to Thai food. And like my problem with this place is that they never fucking make it spicy enough.

- That is true. - As a Thai person, I like every time, like every time, I'm sure they fucking know me by name now, 'cause every time I'm just like, "Spicy, please, spicy, please." - Oh, you put it in like the comments? - Yeah, I put it in the comments. I'm like, "Spicy, please." And it's just never spicy enough. Like I open it and I could tell that they put like a few chili flakes on it. - It just opens it, it doesn't even smell, it's like, "No." - No, you can take it back. You can tell when someone didn't try with the spice, right? It's like there's Thai chilies and then there's like chili flakes.

- So like last week, there's one time I'm just like, let me try something different. So I asked for it spicy again, right? But I don't type it in Japanese, I type it in Thai. - Oh, nice. - Big brain, big brain. - So I typed it in Thai, okay. And I remember opening it, I remember getting the same takeaway box, opening up this package and this thing looked like it had been cooked in like the flames of hell. Fucking Lucifer grilled this himself. I open it and like the chili to rice

like ratio was just like, it was more chili than rice. Would you like rice on your chili? - Can you copy paste what you sent to him? I wanna see this, I wanna try this. - Yeah, sure. I'd never been more happy in my life. - Was it good? - It was good. - Damn, okay. - 'Cause like I ordered the Pat Krapow and like Pat Krapow is like normally really, really spicy in Thailand. And you know it's spicy when like you have to like

you have trouble finding the meat through the chili, right? Because it's like you got the normal meats and then you got like the red and green chili flakes. Or not just chili, just like raw chilies. And I'm just like, you're my brother. Now I know you're a brother. - Fuck, well this is like when we went to the Indian place near here. We do like Indian food, you know?

- I think we'd always ask for it really spicy, like very spicy and it was quite spicy, but it wasn't that bad. - Right, right, right. - And I think- - I mean, to you guys' level. - Yeah, 'cause I mean, even though I'm extremely white, I love spice that pretty much cripples me.

- 'Cause to a standard person like myself, that shit's spicy enough. But to these fucking spawns of Satan. - 'Cause in Japan, when you tell them to make it 10 or max, they just don't do it. And the first time we went there, the first few times, the person who was cooking it, it's always the same guy. He didn't actually make it

that spicy, like it was just kind of like, ooh. - It was definitely Japan standards, yeah. - Like it was very, it was like on the high end for Japan standards, I'd say. And then one time for some reason, I don't know why we went, well he decided this time, he was like, fine, I'm not playing. He's like, fine, I'm not playing anymore. And holy fuck, this was hard. I was like, I got like halfway through this and I was like, I'm actually in like severe pain. Like this is actually brutal. Like Garnt couldn't,

- I couldn't finish it. - Wow. - Yeah, 'cause it was, yeah, I think it was the one week where you had to go home early. So we were in this Indian place. - He was not playing. - Yeah, he was not playing around. And I think I could see him like in the corner of my eye. - He was watching us. - He was like watching us. - He was giggling. - 'Cause we've been there so many times, we order the same meal every time. We order like the most spicy option and it's just like, yeah, we finish it. - It's spicy, but it's not like- - It's spicy. It's a nice tingle on your tongue.

- What if he was like, "All right, the pussy boy is gone. I'm gonna give you guys the real shit now." - But it was by far the spiciest meal I've had in Japan. I could not finish it 'cause it got to the point where it was just,

- My mouth got numb about near the last thing. - What is enjoyable about that though? I don't get it. - I don't know what it is because like the flavors get like enhanced by like being beaten the shit out of you. - No, I get that to a certain extent, but the level you guys have it is just like, I don't even know what flavor is anymore. - Yeah, I mean, I feel like it depends on the dish, right? Because I mean, you can go to like Coco Ichiban and so to explain, have we talked about that before? - Coco Ichiban is like a Japanese curry.

- They have it in America. - Oh yeah, they do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. - And so you can go to this curry chain in Japan and they have like a spice scale from one to 10 and like 10 is the most spiciest. And I've had the 10 before and so has Connor. And for me, it was actually like really spicy, but it just, it felt like- - There's no flavor. - It just felt like you're adding spice for the sake of adding spice. - Right, right. - There are some dishes that I feel

are designed to be spicy. - It's not like flavor enhanced spice, right? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just spice for the sake of spice. To me, like a mild curry, a mild Japanese curry at least is as good, if not better than some of the spicier versions. But there are some like Thai dishes and Indian dishes and Southeast Asian dishes where I feel if you don't have enough spice to it, there's missing a certain kick, a certain flavor to it. - It brings out a lot of flavors. And also just a lot of endorphins from the pain.

- I'm constantly chasing the high. - I get the fact of like, you know, the spice enhances the flavor and stuff like that. 'Cause you know, I've had my fish or my Southeast Asian food and stuff like that, which is quite spicy. And I'm just like, oh, this is hard to eat, but God damn, like this probably tastes way better than without the spice.

And then there's your guys' level of spice. - See the reason why I got into spicy food, because again, you have to bear in mind my parents thought like paprika was spicy. So when I was growing up, I didn't really eat spicy food, but I just, when I started doing YouTube, I started doing the like fucking stupid pepper challenges. And then I'd done it so many times where I was like, I could handle the Carolina Reaper like semi comfortably. And I was like, shit,

"Spicy food isn't spicy anymore." 'Cause I've just been eating these peppers raw, constantly doing fucking YouTube challenges and Twitch live streams. So then I got to the point where I was like, "Oh God, this is like really good now. "Like I really like it." Like habaneros on stuff is like perfect. - No, see because like- - I love that. - When we're talking about like kokoyichi levels of spice, right? 'Cause that's the easiest gauge when you're in Japan, right? It's like, what level of kokoyichi can you do? You immediately know. Like I used, I can now do level three. - Right. - But before, like couple of years ago, I couldn't even do level one.

- That was back when Joe was wearing a diaper. - That's when I was back when I was wearing a diaper. That's when I was a true pussy boy. - I feel like you need something. You need at least like a tool. - Yeah, right. But I mean, you guys can say that because you're used to it, 'cause you've been eating it, you know? - Yeah, but like, I mean, I feel like even some foods where there's an option to pick a spicy version, I don't always pick the spicy version. It very much depends on the dish and whether it compliments it or not. - Right, right.

I mean, like, you know, now I can do a level three and now I understand like, oh, you know, this is actually so much better with spice to a certain degree. But like, I had to kind of slowly trick my brain into thinking that, right? Because if you had given me a level three spicy coco ichi like two years ago, I would have been like, what is this shit?

Like this isn't enjoyable at all. Like I seek enjoyment out of my meal and this is not enjoyable. I mean, I'm in severe pain, but now I've like slowly started to appreciate the pain. - Yeah.

- Joey says getting a level three. - I say that getting a level three. - I'm feeling those endorphins now, bud. - Honestly, to me, that's fucking painful, but it's good painful. And now I finally start to understand, I'm like, oh, okay. These other friends I knew who could eat level seven and eights, who I just thought were absolutely fucking maniacs. - The new anime character. - It's like, I can't eat.

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- Right there, there's a CP right there. - 'Cause we're not gonna do it. - Thank you Crunchyroll for sponsoring this anime podcast. Back to the episode. - Well, it's really weird, right? Because like, you know, obviously you grew up in a Thai household eating spice food all your life, right? - Yeah. - And you think I would be the same? 'Cause like my dad fucking loves spicy food. Like, you know, like the death sauce that they sell here? My dad would just put that in meals.

- I don't even know like that. - Yeah, right? Like you got, yeah. But to me, I was like, why are you putting cyanide in a perfectly nice meal? Why would you poison this meal like this? 'Cause then he would fucking serve it up to the family. - Oh my God. - And we would have to eat it. - That reminds me, my older brother, he was growing Carolina Reapers. - Yeah. - And- - Why? - That's a good question. - 'Cause he won, he likes spicy food. - Yeah.

- One time, this was right before I moved to Japan. He gave them to my parents and just told them that they were like normal peppers. - Oh my, why would you do that? That is truly evil. - That's a true crime story. - Yeah, so what happened was is that they were like, "Oh yeah, they were saying like, "Oh, Brett's been growing some peppers "and he's given us some. "So I'm gonna put them in the stir fry tonight." And I was like, "Oh, okay, sure." I didn't know that they were Carolina Reapers or ghost peppers, one or the other. I mean, they're both fucking- - They're both fucking.

- Yeah, bear in mind, my parents do believe that paprika is spicy. I'm not joking. My dad watches the podcast. He'll be like, "You're lying, Connor."

And so they made me, it's the way they did the stir fry is they make it and they give it to me first and then they make it for my dad and my mom makes it for herself last. And it's like, this is like five minutes in between. So I'm eating this stir fry and I'm like, I'm getting kind of like, I'm like, this hurts. And I'm thinking like, oh, whoa, my mom, what peppers did you use? She's like, oh, this is your brother. He grew them and gave them to us. And I'm like, did he say what kind of peppers they were?

So no, no, he just said he grew them. And I'm like, they got a little kick to them. I was like, they got a bit of kick to them. I'm like, 'cause they put all of them in, like seven or eight. - All of them? Fucking hell. - Seven or eight ghost peppers, all of them. - Your brother's trying to kill your parents. - Well, my parents didn't know. They thought they were like the non-spice. - Wait, did your parents eat them?

- Yeah, so what happened next is that, I warned them, I was like, I really think, I'm like, bear in mind, I'm like, I really think that you should go easy on the peppers on yours. If you can kind of get them out a little bit, I think you should do that. Like, no, it's fine, we've had it before. We've had these peppers before. - Pictures taken before disaster. - At that point, I was like, you know what? Fine, let's just see what happens. - Let's just see what happens.

- I'm there like literally like that, that meme of that kid at the vein in his forehead, just eating these peppers, trying to keep a straight face. Like none of my dad, he's about to eat it. He takes one spoonful and he's like, yeah. Wow, that's really spicy. And he's like starting to like,

I thought it was so funny. And my mom thought he was over-exaggerating. So my mom was like, "Oh, I'll try it too." And my mom starts doing the exact same thing. She starts fucking going, "I have to like one bite."

- They just started drinking milk for like 20 minutes. - What did they expect? - They were just dying. It was the funniest shit. I don't know. - I mean, if I was your parents, I'd take one look at you and be like, "Oh, he's probably not making this shit up." - Well, they thought I was exaggerating with how much spice I could deal. And I was texting my brother after I ate a bite. I was like, "What the fuck are these peppers? "What peppers are these? "What are these, habaneros, ghost pepper?" And he's like, "Oh, Carolina Reaper." I'm like, "Why would you give them to my parents? "You know they can't beat these."

- It's just Bantz, isn't it? - Casually killed mom and dad. - Your parents trust you too much. - I think for that point onwards, they just never accepted any Peppers. - I wouldn't, fucking hell. - 'Cause I saw them and I thought, oh God, they look like ghost Peppers.

- Some interesting shaped peppers. - They don't look like the store, the thin green ones. They look like the big plump, like the shriveled like ones. - Like Satan's toe. - Yeah. - What's like the spiciest thing you've had? - Probably say habanero.

- Really? - Yeah. - I mean, other than the fucking like death sauce that like, you know- - Wait, have you ever eaten like a Carolina Reaper or like a- - Like a- - No, why would I do that? - Oh my God, we need to do that. - No. - YouTube challenge? - Why would I do that? - Because it'd be fun. - No, it won't. For you. - Let's build up your tolerance. - For you guys it would be. - It's not that bad. People on YouTube just- - Lit trial by fire. - Trial by fire.

- Why did I teach them that phrase? - You know, people on YouTube when I watched it, 'cause I think I first saw Rhett and Link do it back in like 2012. And they were like,

It's not that bad. It's just like, it is just discomfort. - Why would I willingly put myself into discomfort? - Just makes great content. - Yeah. - Fuck you got me there. - Who doesn't love killing themselves for content? - You've eaten this like monster ramen, wanker server. Like why would you, that's way worse. - How did you know I'll do anything for you?

- That's how YouTubers mind works, right? - You got me there. - I want to do it. - Oh, we're gonna film it? - You're gonna film it? Okay. - Next Trash Taste special, the winner doesn't have to eat a Carolina Reaper. - Dude, that's gonna be the hardest run to a W in my existence. - And then if it's one of us, you have to eat three. You have to eat one.

- So what, so I'm eating one either way? - Yeah, of course. - Well, no, no, no. If like, let's say you win, me and Garnt have to eat three each.

- Yeah, but that's not gonna do anything to you. - No, three will. - Three will. - Three will fuck me up. - Yeah, all right. - I'm be high as fuck. - On those endorphins. - The endorphins like mesh with your head, man. - It does, it does. Like I remember like the first time I had, I probably had like a ghost pepper or Trinidad Tobago, like Carolina Reaper. The spice high, I thought I'd heard about it before, but I didn't realize it was literally like getting high. And you feel the after effect.

for like hours afterwards because you feel this like warm tingly glow and you just feel like you did something nice and you're like, "Ooh, what's going on?" - It's like the initial 20 minutes of pain is over. It's just like, it's pretty nice. - Yeah, I mean, I kind of get that. - Merlin looks very unimpressed, unconvinced. - I mean, look, I've...

- It is great. - I mean, I've had the death sauce that they sell here, which is technically ghost pepper sauce, but like it's- - Yeah, I've worn down it. - Yeah, but that's the thing, right? It's like, if we're talking like just raw peppers, like I've only done habanero. - Yeah, I mean, I think the spiciest thing, like singular thing I've ever had

was back in university where it was like, it wasn't even like a ghost pepper. It was a ghost pepper extract. - Oh yeah, the extract. - The extract, which is like even more, like it wasn't like a source. - It's concentrated ghost pepper. - Yeah, exactly. It was just like the pure extract. And I'd never like at this point, you know, I'd obviously like still grown up in spicy food, but I've never had like a ghost pepper or like an actual, one of the famous hot peppers that people do YouTube challenges about. So,

I remember this, we were drinking and my mate, he had this ghost pepper extract that he was like daring people to do. - What, he was just carrying it around, was he? - Yeah, yeah. - He's that asshole. - Yeah, he was like that guy. He was the guy, you know the guy who would show people the two girls one cup kind of videos. - We all had that one friend. - Like the pain Olympics. He was that friend. So of course he had this ghost pepper extract.

- Well, God only found out what goatee was recently, which I found really funny. - What was that? - You only found out what goatee was like two weeks ago. God didn't know what it was. And if you don't know what it is, please don't look it up. - Don't look it up, please. - It is someone's cheeks being spread. That's all you need to know. - Yeah, so he had this...

- So you had this ghost pepper extract. And of course we were drinking as you were at university. - Really? - Really. - And it got into a point where we were like tipsy enough to start contemplating doing stupid shit. - Of course.

- You know he's- - Gonna commit credit card fraud? - Yeah, you know he's an experienced friend where he brings it out at exactly the right time of the night where everyone's intoxicated enough to think that it's a good idea to do that. - What a horrible mate. What a fucking, what a horrible friend. Just waiting till everyone is just semi-stupid so they can start feeding them poison.

- Exactly. So he brings out this extract and he's like, "I dare anyone to fucking do this." And I see people doing it and they're taking the tiniest little drop. It's not even a drop, it's less than a drop. And I see people fucking dying. And me,

being like, yo, these weak- - The giga Chad that I am. - Yo, these weak ass white guys don't know their fucking spice. Look at all these guys, right? And so it gets to my turn and I'm just like, I'll show you how a man does it. So like there's- - You've never ever said that out loud. That is not a God phrase. - If there's one thing I was confident over, it's taking fucking spice levels. - I don't think you'd ever say, and I quote, "Let me show you how a man does it."

- So like, so like how the extract works is like, you have this like tiny little spoon, right? - Yeah. - That you can like put like one little drip on. So like I fill up the spoon and I just fucking shove it in my mouth. - What was wrong with you? - I did not know how spicy it was, right? - Right.

I never knew that I could literally feel like I'd been shot in the face until I, like it was just the biggest instant regrets moment of my life. Like normally you see people taking like, they take the Carolina Reaper, they chew on it and there's like this delay, right? - Yeah. - No, there was no,

- There was not a single delay. My body went into like fight or flight mode immediately. Like I was fine. I took it and then like five seconds later, I swear I was in the fucking fetal position. Just like, ah.

- Oh God, it hurts so much. - I wanna try this now, this sounds fun. - It's okay, so- - What? What do you want? - This is interesting, I'd like to try that. - I will say I do not recommend it. As someone who can't handle my spice, I literally- - It was nice taking, don't worry. - It was a pleasant experience. - I was always that kid who's so like jackass, I was like, "I wanna do that."

- Yeah, because what happened is I was out of commission for the entire night. - Of course you were. - Because it was so spicy that it just induced my gag reflex. So I was like, I was on the toilet. I was like in the bathroom for like a good three hours, just like gagging

on the toilet, couldn't throw up. It was just like my gag reflex. Just like my body trying to throw up this thing that was like one little drop. So there was nothing to throw up. It was like a drop, right? But it had induced this gag reflex and I was on the toilet for about three hours. And my university mates being the good mates that they were, they just kind of went clubbing.

- Just left you. - Left you while you're on the toilet. - What a fantastic mates you have. - What a fantastic group of mates. Well, that's, I mean, that's why I'm not friends with them anymore. - That's why I lost our sense. - Long story short, I'm not in contact with any of my uni mates anymore, but- - I'm not in contact with many either. - Yeah. - They didn't poison me.

- Yeah, exactly. They were nice to me. - Maybe, what if it was all a ruse, Garnt, where they all agreed to take small amounts of this just so that Garnt would step up to the plate and be like, "Let me share." - Yeah, they were all like, "We wanna go clubbing, but we don't wanna take Garnt. How can we knock him out?" - "Let's get him out of commission." I know a way that Garnt would fall for it. I think that's what they did, Garnt and me.

- The spice challenge. But yeah, that's like, I think I've read that no one has ever died from spice before or like- - You could go into shock though, can't you? - Yeah. - I think so. - Yeah, I don't know. Meilyne, look it up. Has anyone ever died from spice?

- Yeah, they can go into shock. So you can't die from the chemical itself, but you can die from shock. - You can die from the pain it induces, I'm pretty sure. - Which is shock, yeah. You can go into cardiac arrest. It's always fun. - Basically, just don't do something stupid. - Just don't go into cardiac arrest. - Doctors hate it. - Just get better arteries. - 10 ways to stop heart attacks. Just don't go into cardiac arrest. - Don't take ghost pepper extract or any kind of extract. - You know what I wasn't going to? And I think I'm still not going to.

I think that's why I'm taking it. - I'm good. - You can stop breathing. - Okay. - Just manually pump those bitches. - Yeah. - Just go on CPR me. I've still got my lungs stopped. - It was just like that scene from fucking Pulp Fiction, right? - Yeah. - I just passed down, I have to get the fucking needle and inject it straight into my heart. - The adrenaline, bam!

- Oh my God. - Yeah, so I'm just gonna take it one step at a time when it comes to spice. Like I'm doing a pretty good job going up the ladder, I feel. - Just wondering about CPR. I just, sorry, 'cause you're moving my chest. I feel like I'm too British to do CPR. I feel like I'd be like, are you okay? Are you okay? Is this too much? Is this too much pressure?

while I'm trying to save their life. I'm like, "What?" - Do you know how to do CPR? - Yeah, so I was a lifeguard, so we had to do it. - Oh yeah, yeah. - Oh, that's right, yeah. - Luckily, I always stop those little fuckers before they stop breathing. - Did you ever have to like do it? - No, God no. You'd know which kids were gonna drown right before they walked in. 100%. - Why? - I wish I was joking. - How do you know? - Okay, I may as well just tell stories about being a lifeguard 'cause there's just so fucking so many.

- Basically whilst I was working at McDonald's, I wanted to be a lifeguard 'cause well, I could swim. - That's a good start. - I was a really strong swimmer and there was a course that I did that took about a week and it was really weird to have to do 'cause I had to sacrifice a week of school vacation. So I only had one week and I spent it learning how to be a lifeguard. I paid like 400 bucks and then I couldn't get a job.

for like a year and a half. 'Cause they were all like, yeah, you don't have experience. 'Cause I was like 17. - That catch 22. - Yeah, right. I was like, oh, they didn't hire me. But eventually, 'cause it paid really well. At the time McDonald's paid me four pounds, 10 an hour, which is this much in dollars. And the lifeguarding paid nine pounds, 10 an hour. - Oh wow.

- That's a minted job. - Yeah, but the thing was you had to have a week of training, you had to pay for it all. - That's a double shift at McDonald's right there. - And you know, on paper, it looks like an easy ass job because all you have to do is sit there for 30 minutes and then you get a 20 minute break. And then you sit there for 30 minutes, you get a 20 minute break. And that was it basically. But when you're new, they put you on the, at least mine did, they put me on the shifts where it was kids' birthday parties.

And like, 'cause my mom swam at that pool and they never put me on the shift with the old people 'cause old people don't drown. Old people know 'cause they swim. - They know their limits. - Yeah, 'cause they all go to the swimming club all the time and you know, they're not going to. And it's part from like freak accidents, which never happened. And like people don't drown in pools in the UK. The year that I became a lifeguard,

zero people died from pools in the UK. - Well, that's good. - So this doesn't happen. Why are you laughing, Malian? Until I started the job. But like, okay, so have you ever seen those floats that take up all the pool? - Oh, like all the lanes and stuff? - The whole pool. It's like a big inflatable. - I've never seen those. - Yeah, I've seen those. - You've never seen these? You've seen these, Malian?

- You ever seen these? Google it. It's like a picture on screen. Literally they're these massive kind of like total wipeout-esque courses that you can inflate and they take up the whole pool and if you fall off, you fall in the water. - Oh, that sounds fun as fuck. - It's bad. When I was a kid, I loved the kid who brought this. - That sounds like a trash day special waiting to happen, isn't it? - Yeah, imagine like a bouncy house on water. - That sounds fun as fuck.

- What the fuck? - It's literally, imagine a total white power obstacle course on water. Dude, it's bad. Dude, when I was 12, I loved this shit. - Can we do that? - Dude, we can. - Yeah, I love water. - We can run out of pools. - Yeah, hell yeah. - Go back to the UK, we'll go and rent one. So like you could, basically for kids' birthday parties, there'd be like a five or six year old who'd rent it out. Now, problem is with kids' birthday parties is that not every parent thinks that kids need to be taught how to swim. - Right, right. - I think 'cause parents forget that kids need to be taught how to swim. 'Cause you just take it for granted.

So what ends up happening is obviously it's a birthday party. Everyone invites their whole class. Now half the kids in the class don't know how to swim, but they still are invited and go anyway. So, you know, I'd be sitting there on my thing and I can tell immediately which one of these kids can't swim. Yeah, they look like that, Jay.

- Oh, that looks fun as fuck. What the hell? - Yeah. - So they'd be like a climbing thing and then you have to go through pylons as a slide. Now you could tell immediately when you look at these kids which couldn't swim. They just had to look in their eyes where they were like, fuck, I've never been in this before.

What do I do? - That's a big thing of water. - Because they're also, kids are like that thing where like most kids have like a built in danger system. - Yeah, of course. - It's like heights, right? Kids know that they're scared of heights. Kids know the water is like weird and scary. And then the kids that run in it right away, normally they can swim.

So you'd be doing this thing, right? And there'd be kids. And then you'd see this kid, you just tell again, you can tell he doesn't look confident, right? His technique's poor, looking at the water really scared. - Like toe forced, right? - So they'd climb on this thing and bear in mind it starts at the shallow end and it goes to the deep end where you get off. And then we're talking like, I don't know, like two meters deep. No, no, more than that.

It's like five meters deep. - Five meters, fuck yeah. - Five meters deep at the pool I worked at. - That's pretty fucking deep for a kids pool. - It's like a diving pool. - These kids would just walk, right? And then they'd get to the end of this obstacle course and you could see it that they were like, "What do I do?" Everyone else is going down the slide. And they're being egged on by their friends and they just go down the slide

and they would just go down. - Just sink. - They just sink. They didn't come back up. They just wouldn't come back up. And you'd wait like two seconds just to like make sure, just to make sure they don't come back up. And then you have two choices. You can either jump in or you can get a really long pole and like poke them with it and hope they,

- Get up. - I just hope they're still alive. - Hello, hello. - So basically if a kid was splashing around, be like, ah, you just give him a pole and he'll grab onto it. - Oh, like grab onto it. - They'll grab onto anything, right? But if they don't swim,

and they just sink, which is like, fuck. It's like, I gotta fucking go in. So then I have to go in. And this should happen like three or four times sometimes in like one session. - Fucking hell. - 'Cause these kids are just terrible. Sometimes I would go and jump in. I would get a kid. I'm like, what are you doing? Stop, don't go near the deep end. And then he would go.

and he would go near it again. And I'd feel, I'd blow the whistle back, "What are you doing?" And then I look away for a second, I look back, he's at the deep end again, jumps in, drowns again. I have to go in and get him. And I tell his parents off and his parents have a go at me and complain to my manager saying that it's not my place to tell her what to teach her kids.

And I'm like, it's not my place. I could just let your kid drown, huh? See what happens then. She went full Karen mode on me and tried to get me fired 'cause I bollocked her in front of her parents. - What, because you saved their kid? - Because I went, after I saved his kid twice, I hold his hand and I was like, come, where's your mom? Show me where your mom is. And then we went to his mom. - Where's your mom?

- I was like, "What are you doing?" I was like, "Why are you letting this kid into this pool without any armbands or anything?" And she's like, "Oh." - Like didn't have any floaties or anything. - That's what I thought, why didn't they have armbands? - Right, you know what her reason was? She was like, "I don't want him to feel like he's like, you know, the weird one, the one who can't swim." And I'm like,

- But he is the one who can't swim. - I'm like, that's because he can't swim. He will fucking drown. Do you understand how this works? I'm like, did you ever teach him how to swim? No. I'm like, why are you letting him do this? This is really irresponsible. And then I just left. And this was in front of all her friends 'cause they had like a hearing about it. And then she complained saying, I didn't need to do that in front of all her friends. It was really inappropriate of me. And I'm like, I'm sorry, but like,

You saw your kid drown once and thought, "Oh, I'll let him keep swimming. I'll let him keep going." That really pissed me off. I'm still really annoyed about that. - Yeah, that's just fucking irresponsible. - That just sounds like bad parenting. - Yeah, it's terrible parenting. - The people that stuff like they would just let their kids do it is terrible. - Unless the parent was like, "Fuck, I've been trying to get rid of him." - "Sanitized again!" - That insurance plan, damn, is really expensive, you know, monthly. - That's a really lay abortion plan, that is, man.

- Do they? - Oh my God, look at that! - That looks amazing! - Can you send that picture? - Next special, get ready. Next special, we're fucking doing it. - Doesn't this look amazing? - Dude, and it was a really good job other than that. It's just like, kids just don't know how to swim and you can tell a moment they can't swim. And yeah, they would also, if you ever tried to, sometimes if you'd, they taught you, and I never thought I'd have to use this. They teach you how to kick someone off you if they're trying to drag you down.

- If you're trying to save someone, right? - If I'm drowning, you're coming with me. - Some people, right? When they think they're drowning, they panic. And what they do is, is that they push you down.

'cause they think I wanna get up. And you know, it's not like a selfish thing where they're like, fuck you. - I'm dying and you're dying with me. - It's like, yeah, literally it's like instincts kick in for them and they think I'm gonna push you down to get up so I can breathe. - What was the technique? - So what you do is- - It's like aim for the head.

- So if they're trying to like grab onto you and push you down, you grab them by the arms and like, so let's say you're equal now in the water, we're both on top of the water, you grab them and like you go down under the water and kick them up and kick them off you. - Right, right, right, right. - So you push them away and then you just grab them by the face when you...

- What are you doing? - I'm not kidding. When you save someone, you're supposed to grab them by the chin like this and like pull them. - Holy shit. - Or you can, there's some other ways, but that's the easiest. 'Cause that way you can kind of just do it like your own pace. You can kind of, there's other ways like you can grab them, but that's really awkward. Depends like how big they are. And if you like, if that's like a child, like sometimes grabbing them by the face might be a bit much. - Get over here. - Just imagine you,

- You know the worst thing was as well is that when you, this is the thing that like you don't really think about is that you don't bring spare uniforms. Cause that's not really your thing. So if you go in and you save a kid and it's still your shift, you just go right back to the chair and you're soaking. And you know, some people they take the time. Like the first time I did it, I thought I,

I have to go in right away. I have to save their life right away. And I wouldn't take my shoes off or anything. But then I realized all the people who were like experienced, they would just walk down slowly. They would just take off their shoes and socks. 'Cause they knew they had time and they knew like it's a pool. They knew they're gonna grab them right away. So they're like, I'm not getting my Nike Air Maxes wet. What the fuck bro?

- It was like a kid drowning and the guys are like, "Start the timer." - They'd sit down like this, right? They'd see them like, 'cause if they're flailing, you got plenty of time. So they would just like sit, they'd like walk down really slowly like this, you know? And then they'd be like, take the watch off like this, you know? And then they would go in and get them. It was really funny. I just thought it was really bizarre. But then I was like, "Why did you do that? Isn't that like bad?" They're like, "No, no, no, they're not gonna drown."

- I'm not gonna drown. I know the average time it takes for a human to drown. - Well, again, the moment you have to be worried is if they don't come back up. That's when you have to immediately go in. So that was fine. And again, this never happened. This is only with little kids 'cause little kids are dumb. I mean, I make all these stories to be a lot more exciting than they are. In general, the job was extremely boring.

one of the hardest jobs to do just out of sheer insanity. Like you sit there for 30 minutes at a time, just watching people swim. - Yeah. - Then you take a 20 minute break and then you go back to it. And this is like for like six hours, just watching people swim. And at first it's such a weird thing to do. 'Cause I'm like, what if people get a problem with me like staring at them while they're swimming?

'Cause I mean, you don't stare at people more. Maybe you gotta watch the pool, right? But then you're like, fuck, is it weird that I'm looking at people? Like there's parents watching me. What if they think I'm looking at their kid too much? But I'm just making sure that they're not drowning, okay? It's not weird, right? - Well, according to one parent- - I wasn't even thinking about that until you said it. - These are the thoughts you have when you're going insane sitting there for six hours thinking like, is it weird? Is it weird that I'm looking at everyone for like this long? Is it, I'm going insane. - Sounds like an existential question.

I was like, "What is my job?" - I legitimately started like going insane working there. 'Cause I was like, you have to just think so much. - How long did you do that for? - God, about just under a year. And then I went to, and then I moved away. But yeah, I got that job from doing a different job, which I talk about at different times. It's completely different. It was really funny as well. But like lifeguarding in general is like super boring, but the pay was really good 'cause you have to get the qualification and you have to be taught a lot of stuff.

- Yeah, you're there to save lives. - Yeah, yeah, and the course is quite hard, and you have to redo it every year. And so I can't be a lifeguard now 'cause I haven't got, I didn't renew it. - Oh, right, right. - But for the one year, it was fine. I mean, the pay was insane for being 18 and going- - And I feel like learning the basic first aid skills is really fucking important. - Yeah, it was really helpful. - 'Cause I was never taught it at all. - We don't get taught it in the UK. - Yeah, yeah, we don't get taught it. So I don't know how to do CPR.

- They come in once and they're like, "Push the chest and blow." - I didn't even get that. I didn't even get that. - Oh really? - We're taught it every year. Like during high school. - I do not know how to do the fucking Heimlich maneuver. - Oh yeah, we have to learn that as well. We just have to learn like all the basics. - I should probably learn it now because it's gonna be real awkward if I'm gonna be like, "Hold on, let me just bring up this YouTube tutorial for a second."

- All right, wait, wait, I got an unskippable ad. - It's sponsored, it's sponsored. - I got an unskippable ad, hold on a second.

- Yeah, a lot of aspects of the job were fun, but not many. And like I had to like clean as well, like clean all the toilets and showers, which was like, I mean, I didn't know I was gonna do that, but. - Right, glad you spent 400 bucks to clean toilets. - I mean, it's just, you're there and when you're wrapping up and there's no one left in the pool, you just start cleaning 'cause that's what you're supposed to do.

But yeah, and then sometimes I had to like, 'cause even though I wasn't teaching the kids, but for the kids who are like one year old, they're learning how to swim, there had to be someone in the water constantly with them. And those kids just fucking like, don't let go of you. And it's like, no, get off me little shit. It's like WrestleMania with like babies. It's like, get off me. I'm supposed to learn how to swim. But the moment they let go of the wall, they're like, and they've like, they suddenly gained the grip strength of like a grown man.

- It was just, yeah. I mean, it was all right job really. It was just paid well. - The kids at the pool are scary. - Just kids, man. Kids fucking suck. And if your kid can't swim, teach him how to swim. - Yeah, I mean like when did you guys learn how to swim? - My mom like swims competitively and still does. - Wow. - Okay. - She still does like triathlons and stuff. - Oh shit, Jesus. - And she's like one of the like fastest women in her area. And she's like,

nearly 55 or something like that. - Damn. - She's a beast. - She's so much more healthy than me. It's so sad. Like when I go back home and she wants to like go on a bike ride, I'm like dying. And she's like, just like freezing. - Casual 50K bike ride, let's go. - No, that's what she does. She's like 50K bike ride, nothing. - Did she watch the cycling special and be like, I thought I raised you better. - Yeah, she's like, pathetic. I'm like, no, no, no, really the footage, if you saw the raw footage, mom, you'd know.

But yeah, so my mom taught me like, I like, I've always known how to swim. I don't remember not being able to swim. - I went to like a swimming school. - I remember like swimming was part of my curriculum in like school. - Oh really? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we had like a local like swimming pool next, like not next to our school, but like really, really close to our school. I remember one like Monday mornings was just dedicated

to learning how to swim. - That's good. - Yeah, I mean, I'm not a strong swimmer by any means, but I still know the basics. I still know how to swim. Like to me, it's still scary whenever I go out and I swim and I can't feel the bottom. I don't know, there's like the fear- - There's something so wholesome about hearing that.

- Why? - I don't know, it just sounds like a child problem. - We were all told we can't touch the floor. - I mean, in a swimming pool is fine, but like out in the sea. I remember the first time- - No, what's worse is when I can actually feel like something underneath. - Oh, yeah, when you kick something? - Yeah, you kick something, that's when I'm scared.

- Yeah, I mean like, I don't know, something like in a pool, completely fine, I don't give a shit if I can't feel the bottom. If I'm like, I remember the first time I realized it when we were on the beach, it was Brighton Beach as well, so it wasn't exactly a fucking thrilling beach. And I remember like my mates just, we kind of just like, oh yeah, let's go swim out and swim out to where like the fucking boys are. And I've never done it before, but I knew how to swim. And I remember we got there

And this is the first time in my life that I had swum that far out. And this is the first time in my life where I got to this point and I started kicking down and my whole life experience had taught me, no matter how deep it is, you can still stand up. And so it was this realization where we get there and we start flowing on the water and I'm just like,

- Where's the floor? Where's the ocean floor? - This is what happens when you're six foot. You take floors for granted. - Yeah, exactly.

Like I've never had a swimming pool where like I couldn't like stand up at least on like my tiptoes. I sink down a little bit and then, you know, I can still see like the surface of the water. I'm still on my tiptoes. I can reach the surface quite easily. So this was the first time where I'd gone this far out and I had the realization of, oh, okay. There is no edges to this pool that I can quickly grab onto. I've got to swim literally like all the way back to the fucking beach. And I...

And the beach, like, you know that scene in like a movies where, you know, the character gets vertigo where they look down and like the ground just suddenly like zooms out. That's exactly how I look. That's exactly what the beach looked like when I turned around and it just like the beach just went.

Like that and I was just like, oh shit. - That's why you don't really, you know, you shouldn't be swimming if you're getting even like 1% tired, like you should turn about. - Yeah, I was already pretty tired. - You should turn the fuck around. - That's how people drown. - That's probably like the closest I've come to drowning as well. - People get tired and they swim out and then they're like, they're tired by the time they turn around and they're fucked. It's so sad. - And yeah, I remember like, I remember turning around and being like, okay, I've got to fucking do this because I,

because one of the like the scariest things- - My life literally depends on it. - My life literally depends on it. And I was like, "Guys, I think I gotta turn back." And I don't think I kind of conveyed how fucking terrified I was to my mates 'cause they were like, "We're just gonna keep going with our school of view." And I'm like, "Okay, I'm gonna turn back now." So yeah, what a great group of friends you have. - Those are bad mates, mate, if they're letting you like do that.

- I mean, I didn't have a good group of mates when I was growing up. - If I heard even like a breath from my friend that sounded a little too heavy and we're swimming, I'm like, turn the fuck around. - Yeah, turn around. - Get the fuck back. - Fucking hell. - Especially when you get further out, the waves get stronger. - Yeah, exactly. And then the currents come in and that's when it gets really fucking scary. - Yeah. I mean, I can't think of anything more depressing than just fucking dying on Bryant Beach as well. At least if I'm gonna die on a beach, let me die on a good beach. - Like a nice beach.

- Come to Wales, man, you got the finest beaches. You got the finest beaches, man. - My fondest memory as a kid, 'cause like, 'cause Australia, every fucking house has like a pool in it, 'cause otherwise you can't survive the fucking summer. - The luxury. - Yeah. - You can't survive the summer otherwise. But my fondest memory, and I don't know if this is like a collective like memory for everyone, like every kid who like swam in a pool, but did you used to do this thing where you would go under the water

- And then you would pretend to like walk. - Yeah, of course. - To feel like you're in like on the moon. - Of course. - That's the only memory I have of being in a pool. Even though I went to swimming school for like seven years to like learn how to like do all these like different swimming things and like all these fun activities and whatnot. The only thing I remember is like, yeah, I'm on the moon.

- What intelligent thoughts is Joey having today? I'm on the moon. - The whole time you were talking about like the pool, that's in my head, that was just replaying over and over again. I'm like, I wanna go swim in a pool again. It's sad because it's so fucking hard to like find a place to swim. - There's like no pools here. It's like they hate swimming for some reason. - Unless you know you fucking pay 150 bucks a month to go to a gym that also just happens to have a pool in it. - I'd pay to go to a gym with a pool in it, fuck. I wanna swim. - I just wanna go to like a pool and just swim. - I haven't seen a pool anywhere.

- Yeah, honestly. - It's weird to think that you don't like pools. - Yes, well, I mean, I don't know how statistically correct this is, but there's a lot of even adults in Japan that would just never learn to swim.

- Yeah, I mean like if it wasn't part of my curriculum, I probably would not have learned how to swim. I don't know where I would have gotten the motivation to be like, okay, I'm going to go out and figure out how I'm going to fucking flow through water. - There's pools everywhere in the UK. - Yeah, because in- - And they're public. - Yeah, yeah, exactly. - So like you just pay like two pounds and you go swimming. - 'Cause in Australia, it's almost like second nature to be like, oh, your kid is like three to five years old, well then we're gonna take you to swimming school. Like, no question.

- As someone who's a lifeguard, was it pretty common for you to find pieces of shit in your pool? - It happened like, so for like a year. - It happens. - It was like Code Brown, so it was like. - Code Brown. - That's what it was. You'd have to empty, everyone has to get out and you have to close the pool.

- Really? - 'Cause you have to re-sanitize it. - Oh, okay. - 'Cause it's like, it's contaminated. - Well, yeah, obviously. - 'Cause obviously there's tons of piss in there, but you can't see it. But the moment you see a giant Mars bar floating in there, you gotta fish it out and then you gotta kick everyone out. Same if someone throws up. I think more people throw up than- - Throwing up in a pool? Oh, I guess from drinking all the pool water. - Maybe some kids are stupid, they would like,

- Some of them would drink the pool water. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Some of them would just eat a lot and they'd like jump around and then swim a bunch, get really exhausted and then they would throw up. - Yeah, yeah. - How long would it take to fucking sanitize the pool? - I don't know, we had like a Roomba that did it. There was like a Roomba that went around the bottom and there was a bunch of- - Oh yeah, like the little, yeah, we used to have those. - We'd go around and it would clean it,

the water is like never like emptied. It's just like- - It's just salted, right? - You gotta do a chlorine test every like two hours to make sure the chlorine levels are okay. But I never did that. I wasn't allowed to. They were like, "We don't trust you with it." - We don't trust you with the chemicals. - We don't trust you with the chlorine, Connor. Get out of here. I mean, I was never like a manager there. So I was just like there. - I remember still having like fucking vivid memories when I was like learning how to swim.

finding a shit in like the swimming pool. - Yeah, it happened like twice I think to me. - Yeah, 'cause like, it would never float. It would always be at the bottom. And like, as a kid, I was just like you, 'cause I was always been short-sighted. I was always short-sighted, right? My entire life. And I didn't know this until I was like maybe 10 years old that I was short-sighted. Oh my God. Actually, I remember, I remember,

I remember as a kid, right? I would be sitting really close to the TV because like when I'm playing games all day, my mom was just like, "Stop sitting so close to the TV." And I was like, "But I can't see it." And my mom was just like, "Look harder." - You're not looking hard enough. Get better eyes. - Oh my God.

And then it was only when we realized that, when I was a little older, I was just born with bad eyesight, unfortunately. So as a kid, I didn't have glasses at the time. So I would be swimming in the pool and I would see this like little, I remember seeing this like little black fucking thing, like,

in the corner of this pool, right? - No, how did you do? - And it was fucking blurry as fuck, right? So I'm just like, what the fuck is this black thing in the corner of the pool? I've never seen a black thing in the corner of the pool. - No, don't tell me you didn't, I think you did. - And so like, out of, you know, they say curiosity killed the cat. So me being the curious little, you know, fucking six year old I was or whatever, I swim closer and closer to it, right?

And looking back, I can hear the fucking Jaws music just playing in the background. I'm like, dun, dun, dun. And so like, I start swimming closer and closer to it and it starts like slowly, slowly- - Enhancing. - Slowly, slowly coming into focus, right? And it starts like, okay. So it becomes this blurry mess and it becomes this cylinder shaped thing. And I'm just like, what the fuck is a cylinder shaped thing doing in the swimming pool? Right? And so I get closer and I get closer and then I'm literally like,

So the shit's there, right? And so I literally was just like...

And then I like when it fully came into focus, obviously when I'm this close, I can see the entire fucking detail. - You're like two inches away from a piece of shit. - Yeah, you can see the fucking texture of the shit right now. Like that's how detailed it was in my mind. I let out the biggest underwater scream I had of my fucking life. It was literally like a fucking horror movie when I'm just like,

- You know what the, the weird, that's such a good story. - It's such a great story. - The weirdest time that there was a shit in the pool and this happened only twice while I was there. And I was just completely confused at how there was a shit in the pool. And I still to this day cannot figure out what happened. So I'd love some scientists in the chat to explain what the fuck happened. - Yeah.

- They would do this thing at my pool where they would have like how to learn how to kayak. So they would let like six people- - Like in the pool? - Yeah, they would let people, they would put six kayaks in the pool and just let people kayak around it. And I don't know how this happened, but after the kayakers left, there was a shit in the pool. Now they're in kayaks. How did they get in the pool? Did some of them just window out, like put their butt out just for a second, just like squeeze it out? How does that happen? How does there's shit in the pool after kayaks?

- Does anyone have an idea of how this happened? 'Cause we were all completely confused and luckily it was the end of the day, but we were just like, "How is this shit in the pool?"

- You're like looking back on like the security footage cameras like, we gotta find the exact moment where the poop came out. - We wish we had security footage to fucking analyze if someone had done a cheeky shit. Did they bring it and drop it in? Like did they do it in the kayak and then just fucking scooch it in? Like what happened? To this day I wake up in cold sweat wondering how did that shit go? - Wait, were they like adults in the kayak? - No, it was just like 15, 14, 13 year olds. - What 15, 14 year old is like?

I'm gonna shit in this pool. - Kids are fucking weird, man. - Kids are weird. - But you think like after like the age of 12, you think like- - Nah, dude. - There is like a mental like stop in my brain to be like, no, pooping in the pool is bad. I probably shouldn't. - Some kids are so dirty though, they don't give a shit. - Gross. - Yeah. - I mean, like even just pissing in the pool, right? - I've done it.

- Everyone's done it. - I'm not gonna pretend like I don't piss in the pool. - It's something that we don't like to admit, but of course everyone's done it. - Everyone does it. - Right, Maylin? - Never. - Right, Maylin? - Sometimes. - It's like smelling your own fart, everyone does it. - Sometimes you just get in the pool and you realize, fuck, I need to piss. I just got in. - Yeah, I don't wanna get out. - I'm not getting out, I'm gonna piss. Everyone else is doing it. We're all just drinking each other's piss anyway. - This pool is massive, they'll all know. It's got chlorine in it for a reason. Wave it around a bit.

- What? - It's a fucking pool, Maylene. - It's a public pool, Maylene. - Public pool is basically piss. Why do you think they put so much fluoride in it? - Michael Phelps says he pisses in the pool. If Michael Phelps can piss in the pool, I can piss in the pool. - Yeah, it propels him, right? It's like an extra jet engine. - He is the gold standard of swimmers. If he can piss in the pool, as far as I'm concerned, I can piss in the pool. - It's like a jet propel, right? It's just like through his. - I'm not shitting in the pool. I'm not doing that, come on.

- Big difference between pissing and shooting in the pool. - One of them evacuates the pool, the other one is the thing everyone else is doing. It's not a problem, whatever. I will not have to justify pissing in the pool. I don't just get in every pool and I'm like, I'm about to. It's pissing time. - I'm about to pee. - All I'm saying is that if you got a wetsuit on or something, it's like, you know what? I'm gonna make myself warm. - You know who else pisses in the pool though? Our patrons. - Yeah, they do.

- All of these people definitely pee in the pool. - They definitely piss in the pool. Look at all these lovely people right there. - Look at all these lovely pool pissers right here. - From fucking spicy poo to fucking pissing in the pool. - Sounds like a Trash Taste episode to me. - Hey, if you'd like to join the Patreon, then make sure to go to patreon.com/trashtaste. Also, yeah, also follow us on Twitter, send us your memes on the subreddit, and if you hate our faces, listen to us on Spotify.

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