The 5th Annual Trash Taste Awards | Trash Taste #258
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- AwardWoof, five years. - We've been doing this for five freaking years now. - Oh my God. - We must be getting to that time where some people don't know why it's called the AwardWoof. - Oh yeah. - We probably are. - Do you wanna explain the law of that quickly? - When I initially tweeted out the Trash Taste Awards, I guess I pressed W instead of S and people liked the joke and it stuck. So that's why. - And that was five years ago. - That was five years ago. - When you were still active on the subreddit.

- When I was still active on the sub. - When we're all active on the sub, yeah. - But there are more important things to discuss right now. First of all, we're doing a live stream, a big live stream with some of the guests that you know and love from Trash Taste. When is it gonna be, Joey? - Wait, are you telling me Trash Taste After Dark is coming back? - It's coming from one big stream. - For one day. - One big day. - One day only. We're getting the gang back together. - Absolutely. To celebrate five years of Trash Taste on the 14th,

of June, which is a Saturday, Japan time, Friday for you guys in America, somewhere in between for the rest of you. We will be doing a massive After Dark stream over on our Twitch channel, which is twitch.tv slash Trash Taste Podcast. As Connor said, we're going to get a bunch of guests back. We're going to be doing all sorts of things to just celebrate and just have a good time with past guests and reflect on five years of doing this

anime, not anime podcast. - Yeah, we're gonna be filming, we're gonna be streaming all day, likely starting, I'm gonna throw out a time, but it's not a commitment. It is just a thought. Probably around 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM. - Something like that. - JST and we're gonna go for like at least 12, 13, 14, 15.

- Actually, by the time this gets uploaded, if you go onto our Twitch channel, there should be a countdown that is playing right now that will count down to the exact time that we will be starting the live stream. So make sure to check that out. Also, you know, going live immediately as of this episode going up, I don't know if you guys have noticed these beautiful clothes line up here.

- That's right. - Beautiful pieces of merch. - We have decided to make a special five year anniversary merch drop, which includes t-shirts, hoodies. We also have this really sick reversible jacket, which I'm sure Mudon can put up a picture of, as well as a bunch of special stuff, very limited stuff. - We got the vinyls, right? - You wanna get the vinyl actually? - We'll get one. - Yeah, so all of these are gonna be for pre-order for the next three weeks or so.

- But some of them will not be pre-order, specifically the Trash Taste pillow, as you can see right here, this is limited, as well as a very special Trash Taste vinyl. - Which will be signed by us. - Yep, on the live stream. We will be signing all of these on the live stream. - Not only is the art amazing. Oh my God, look at this. - You wanna pull that out?

That's right. We've made a special vinyl. So we made sure to make it look cool in case you guys don't have a vinyl player at home. But if you do have a vinyl player at home, there is some secret special stuff that is on this vinyl. Uh, this is very limited in numbers as well. And as, as we just mentioned, we'll be signing all of these live on the five year anniversary stream as well. And also, uh,

On one side is the pilot episode. Yes. And then on the other side is a special message. Exactly. Yes. About thoughts about Trash Taste and the five years that led up to this. Yeah, we get a little bit sappy, a little bit sentimental. Not me. Not me. Not you? I didn't do that. I don't know about... I didn't hear you guys recording, but I just... I actually didn't listen to you guys recording. I didn't either. I didn't. Okay. So I'm going to... I have one of the vinyls at home, so I'm going to spin it.

- No, no, no, no. That's for fans. - You can't listen. - You can't listen to what we said. - You shouldn't be listening to it. - I was very sentimental. I don't know about you guys. - I was sentimental. - Okay, okay. - Yeah. So anyway, all of that, all of the merch and everything like that is available for pre-order or limited stock right now. So if you click the link down in the description below, you can get it. You can support us through that, but if not, that's totally fine.

Stick around for this episode and/or join us for the live stream that we're doing on our Twitch channel. - Yes. - Like boys, five years. - Cheers. - Cheers. - Cheers. - Cheers. - Cheers to that.

- Where have these five years gone? - It's so scary to think, because like when we started this podcast, we were like, we were not like, this will last five years. - Props to us for sticking around. - Yeah, legit, right? - I've never been to a YouTuber podcast that does this many episodes. Oh wait, no, I'm kidding. It's been really fun and it has gone by really fast. - It has. - I saw a lot of people were worrying because they felt like

we were giving our final episode vibes with the award questions. - Oh really? - A lot of people were like, is it ending? It feels like it's ending. It feels like it's ending. - Oh yeah. I guess because unlike the past four Trash Taste Awards, we're not only gonna be reflecting on this past year's worth of episodes and guests and all that kind of stuff, but we're also gonna be doing a little bit of a special five year award as well. And as you guys have probably noticed right here, we have this insane,

- Yeah, Gustav. - Old trophy. - Who actually did stream snipe me in one of my Denmark streams. - Oh really? - Oh really? - He's a really talented machinist. And this is from old motorcycle parts, stainless steel. - Yeah, real stainless steel. - We didn't get to say hi to him 'cause we were all traveling and doing stuff, but he did come to the Trash Taste studio 'cause he's also given us these things in the past, these amazing Trash Taste statues. And he's made a giant, oh God, it's so, this giant,

- Trash Taste Award. - This is amazing. - Which is just so sick. - It's so dope. So shout out to your staff, man. Thank you so much for this. And we will be giving this to one of the more final awards at the end of this episode. I feel like spinning. - Okay. - But yeah, boys, five years of Trash Taste. How many freaking episodes? 250 something? - 260. - 60 something? - 260 now? - With a bunch of specials. - Oh my God, yeah.

- Do you remember when we first did the special? Sorry to reminisce already. - No. - I know that we did the, we released the drifting special. - Oh, okay. - Well, not the big special, but I guess that, yeah, that was technically the first one, right? - Yeah. - We decided on the drifting and we're like, this is better than a podcast episode. And we released it instead of a podcast. People got really annoyed. - Yeah, I remember that.

- What the fuck man? We want a podcast. - I was waiting for you boys in that room. - They were like, man, I'm really hoping it would be the room though. And we were like, okay. - I feel that's where we decided to release specials like midweek instead of like replacing episodes. - We realized we couldn't replace any episodes and we realized that no matter how much effort we put into a video, people just wanna see us sit down and just yap shit.

- Fair enough. - My God. But we got a lot to go through this Trash Taste Award. So let's first and foremost, as always, let's go through all the nominations. - Yeah, all the categories. - We got so many beautiful animations now. - Yeah. - My God. - Wow. - All right, so we got hottest take, best out of context clip, best screen grab of the year, most degenerate moment, best bro should not have let him cook moment.

- We're just coming up with these titles. The saltiest moment, most monkey moment, wildest guest episode, best story, biggest clown, biggest Chad, biggest W of the year, best meme, best mood on fact check of the year. You guys really liked that one from last year. Best drip, best argument, most wholesome moment, most privileged moment, biggest I made it the fuck up award, best patron episode of the year and best TT episode of the year. But as you can see, we also have some five year categories, which is going through again,

basically the entire catalog of Trash Taste. Most aged poorly take ever, best meme of all time, best screen grab of all time, best Trash Taste special of all time, and of course the best Trash Taste episode of all time.

- I'm really intrigued. - Tough categories, man. - Yeah, I have no free, I mean, I never have any idea of like what the nominations are gonna be, let alone the winners, but now I'm less knowing. - Yeah, I'll be honest, this is the first year where I've definitely had less, 'cause I'm so busy, I've had less time to go through each of the nominations, each of the categories. I'm actually going into this blind. So this year I've actually let the staff members handle everything. - I just don't want fucking Pete to win biggest chat again.

- So sick of him telling me he's the biggest Chad winner two times in a row. - I mean, look, it's hard to deny. - Can it be three times in a row? - No, I don't want it to be three times in a row. - We're gonna have to change up the nominations next year. - It'll be biggest Chad and then in quotations without Pete. - Excluding Pete. - Excluding Pete. - God damn it. All right, well, should we jump into it? 'Cause we got a lot to go through. - Yeah, let's jump into it. Let's start off as always with our hottest take of the year. And here are the nominations.

- German food is worse than British food? How is that a hot take? - Bro, 'cause Germans, they care so much about being better than the UK.

- Yeah. - Or like not being perceived as worse than the UK. - I didn't realize it was that much of a crime to be proud of your cuisine. Connor thinks it's normal to clean a toilet without gloves. - Why are half of these me? - Why are you surprised? - One third of this show. And I'm pretty sure I was a part of the first take too. - I think so, yeah. - Fuck sake. All right, well, let's look. Should we play the videos then at least? - Yeah, let's look at the first one. - In cuisine, rich food in it.

- British. - Okay, I do think British food is the most over-clowned on foods. I agree. - True, true. - He's spitting facts. - This guy's right. - He's spitting facts. - I like this guy. - How is this a hot take? - Which cuisine is the worst cuisine then?

- Yeah, bro Germans get away. - I immediately jumped in and help you out. I was like, yeah, no, I'm with you on that. - The one time that Connor's got my back somehow. - 'Cause I'm certain, I'm certain that like when someone asked that question, all of the French people were just like bracing.

And then the Germans were like, "It's awesome." - No, the French food's great. - Yeah. - French food is great. The problem is that French dining is a miserable experience. - I see. - But French food itself, phenomenal. - Okay, okay. - It is like,

- I mean, they invented restaurants for a reason, you know? They had something cooking. - Yeah, fair enough, fair enough. - But some things you can argue it is overrated. - Ah, fair enough. - In the French- - All right, let's check out Connor thinks it's normal to clean a toilet without gloves. - This is true. - You just like use one side, no gloves. That's disgusting, dog. - What do you mean? What do you mean? I just hold the sponge and I get in there and I .

- This is not the most unhygienic thing you've ever heard. I'm not the crazy one. - I use the long toilet brush. So I don't need to wear gloves or anything. - Yeah, exactly. - Yeah, but I just wash my hands afterwards. I'm holding a sponge that has soap on it. - You wear sunscreen every day, but you willingly

- 'Cause you know, you wear sunscreen every day to protect yourself, but you willingly will just wash, put your hand in shit. - Yeah, bro has a sun on bro on summer days. - There's no shit in my toilet, just so we know. Like I'm not cleaning it when there's shit in there. - Yeah, but there's microscopic shit. - Yeah. - You can't see it. - There's microscopic shit everywhere. - Oh my God, all right. All right, let's look at Connor's next one. You don't need to shower every day. - This is true, why is this a hot take? - Wait, before we get into this, do you shower every day? - Yes. - Yeah. - I don't shower every day. - Did you shower today?

I did today. Thank God. Today is not every day. Let me test that.

- Can't smell it today. - I can't smell them from here, so I'm good. All right, this one is Emily coming back on to defend her instant ramen take to finding out she doesn't think the same thing about Korean noodles. - This is why Emily tell me my ramen is shit. I don't wanna hear it. - Okay, I never said ramen was shit. I just said I liked instant ramen more. - You said what you said. - You said enough. - You said a shittier version of ramen is better. - You've said enough, Emily, okay? - Would you say the same thing about Korean noodles as well? - What do you mean?

- Like Korean noodles from the store versus like instant ramen Koreans. - No, I love Korean noodles. - Oh, so it's a race thing. - The inconsistency is just like. - So what I'm hearing is a nationalism here. - Okay. - Some peak bias here. - Yeah, right? - With your nation. - Yeah, what the hell? All right, next one is another Connor take. It's normal to cut your toenails over the toilet. - Is it not? - No.

- I put my foot on the toilet seat like that. - Wait, you do it into the toilet? - Yeah, into the toilet. I flush it down the toilet. - Do you do it while you're shitting? - What a horrible smell. - So you have to go all the way to the toilet, sit on the toilet. - My toilet is not in Mordor, guys. It's in my house. I just go to the toilet, like I said in that clip right there, I just put my foot on the table and I just go at it.

- On the table, on the toilet seat. - It's so gross. - Why is it gross? - Also, it cannot be good for your pipes. - I mean, how big are your toenails? - I don't know how big your toenails are. - They're not like monsters, they're quite short. - I've never heard this before. - Yeah, I've just never heard of it before. - It's either there or the shower. You do shower as well? - No. - No, come on, people must do it in the shower. - I have a little bin in the living room and I just do it into the bin in the living room.

- Yeah, it's either in my room. - That feels more disgusting. - Why? - You're like some kind of chimpanzee in a zoo cleaning yourself in the living room. - Yeah, you're a chimpanzee in the fucking shower doing it. You're butt naked. - That's a room for cleaning. I'm grooming myself. - All right. - Just the idea of toenails over the toilet. - Yeah, it's just people who like cut their, in the living room, they'll cut their toenails in front of me. I'm like, what are you doing? It's disgusting. - Well, I'm not gonna do it in front of a guest. - Yeah. - And I'm like, what are you doing, man? This is like your living room. This is where you're supposed to relax.

- If you want to groom yourself, you have a room for that. - Yeah, fair enough. All right, and the last one is wearing jeans at home is comfortable. - Man, I should start wearing jeans at home like a psychopath to see if like- - Why is that psychopath? Why is all this me and Connor agreeing? This year it's all me and Connor agreeing on a take.

- This is me sitting back being like, this content makes itself. - This is what we call character development. It is our five year anniversary. And now most of the takes- - You finally agree. - Most of the takes are just being like, you know what Connor's actually spitting. - Thank you. - Thank you. Finally we've agreed on ourselves. - Yeah. - I don't agree on that. - You just don't need to. - Is there another page?

- Oh, that's it? All right. So it's those six. - Six is quite fucking long. - Yeah. Well, you know what? No matter what wins, I'm safe. - Yeah. - You're not nominated here. - Because I only make good- - Did you just not talk this year, Joey? - No, I only make good takes, that's why.

- You know why it is? It's because I barely made an anime take. - Well, hopefully, my hope is that, because I have so many people who wish to see my downfall, we'll split their votes. - Well, you currently have, what is it? - Three and a half. - Yeah, about a 50, 60% take. - I'm voting for Emily here. - Yeah, Emily, just to spite Emily. - It's gotta be Emily. - All right, let's find out then. The winner of the hottest take of the year goes to...

Connor thinks it's normal to clean a toilet without gloves. - I gotta say, that is disgusting. - That is gross. - That is disgusting.

- Well deserved, well deserved ladies and gentlemen. - Hey, you know, what can I say? I mean, look, is it not everyone's cup of tea? Yeah, I respect that. But a real man has to clean regardless if he has gloves or sponges, he's just got to get it done. - Yeah, I'm sure, but it's still gross. - Well, yeah, that's right. - What was the percentages? - Wow, so Connor wins with 30.2% of the votes.

- Damn. - Second place is German food. - No, no, no. - No, it's the jeans are uncomfortable. - Oh, what? - Yes, also correct. And then third place is Emily. Very close though. - Okay. - So about a third of people agree. - See, not that many people think cutting your toenails in the toilet is a bad thing. - I think everyone who thought that got like even more disgusted by you cleaning the toilet bowl with your bare hands.

- Like an animal, talking about apes, you know. - Well, I'm glad most people think that the showering every day is not that big of a deal. It's true, you don't need to shower every day. - Well, we do have a lot of anime fans watching this. - Well, okay, that's, I would like to change my support for this category.

- Well, congrats Connor for your first W. All right, let's move on. - Moving on to the next clip. - All right, next. - I don't like winning things in this. - All right, next one is the best out of context clip. - Oh God, I love this one. - These ones are always a banger. All right, let's see what the nominations are. All right, not enough bitches. Connor after stimming on a muffin. - Okay. - Play it. - There's just not enough, I don't know, bitch.

- It's the fact that you call yourself halfway through. - Okay. - All right, well fair enough. - You gotta make that like a Twitch alert or something. - Yeah. - We said worse. - All right, next one is Garnt saying, "I don't know, I kind of like being a misogynist." - What was the context? - I don't know. - Play it. - I don't know, I kind of like being a misogynist.

- You said it so earnestly. You said it so honestly. - What is the context of this? - You said it after like so much thought and like self-reflection. It's like, you know what, actually. - Oh my God. All right, next one is Connor with the death dick. - I didn't do it. It's a freak action that my dick causes heart attacks, okay?

- I sound like I'm genuinely trying to defend myself. - So you don't understand the power that I have. - People just die. - I think I loosely remember that conversation. - This was a fever dream of a conversation. - Yeah, I do remember this one. - I can't remember which episode we filmed it in, but I remember we were just- - I think this was the Hear Me Out episode. - No, I don't think it was. - Was it not?

- I thought it was. I don't know, maybe I might be misreading. - Yeah. - All right, anyway, next one is me with, "I didn't even see the cock until it started attacking me." - And then I cut off all of his limbs and I was like, "Why am I still getting hit?" And then I realized, "Oh, his cock is attacking me." - Because I thought, I didn't even see the cock until I cut his legs off and I was like, "I gotta cut, oh."

- I sound like a psychopath. - Oh my God, this is like a three serial killers on a podcast. - Yeah, yeah. - I just couldn't see his cock. - I cut his limbs off and I was like, oh man, it's his cock. - All right, next one is also me with well boys, I'm about to have sex with one of you. I do not remember saying this. So it's like a well boys, I'm about to have sex with one of you. - When did I say that?

- He just interrupted our conversation. It kind of sounds like you're like, I've had enough of this boys. I'm having sex with one of you today. - Stop talking, I'm about to have sex with one of you. - Boys, I can't hold it in any longer. - Holy shit. All right, next one is also Connor, Jesus Christ. Flying is super easy in Japan because they never had a 911. - That's true. - Flying is so easy in Japan 'cause they never had a 911, so.

- It's super easy. - I mean, you're only spitting facts. - I'm right. - Yeah, you are right. - Look, they've had their own big historical moments. Might've been a little bigger than 9/11. - I meant within terms of getting through the airport and the ease of flying a domestic flight. - That is true. - Which is very easy in Japan. - That is true. - You can bring liquids on it.

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- Right. - Right, but they never bothered civil aviation. - Yeah. - You know, the one, the thing that blows the American's minds when I tell them this, I'm like, you know, you don't need to show ID when you get on a domestic flight in Japan. - Yeah. - Yeah. - No one asks you for ID at any point. - No. - You can just literally just walk on the plane. - Yeah. - There's no questions asked. - It's like, you're not leaving the country, it's not our problem. - And that's because they haven't had an incumbent. - All right, we have another page though. Let's load up the second page of nominations.

Oh, this is all the way back in LA. Garnt said, "If I had tits, I wouldn't need fidget toys." - I don't need the context for this. I already agree with what I said. - I'm just saying, if I had tits, I would not need fidget toys. - I mean, he's spitting. - The Ball Fondler? - The Ball Fondler by Didis.

- If I close my eyes. - Like you're fondling someone's balls. - Yeah. - Oh wait, does he have the fidget toy in it? Oh my God. - This must have been such a weird episode for audio only listeners. Me saying, where are the teats?

- I don't know. - We're the teats. - What is this next one? - Gay marriage, get out of here, moo dang. - What is this? What? - Gay marriage, get out of here, moo dang.

- Oh my God. - I don't remember that. - Oh Jesus. Well, another absolute year of bad context clips, but only one of them can win. - I don't know. I don't know which one to do this time. - There's so many bangers actually. Yeah, I have no idea. - Yeah, we all did bangers this year. - What are you hoping for? Score highly at least.

- Oh God, Jesus Christ. I don't know, call me egotistical, but I hope that I'm about to have sex with one of you. - Yeah, honestly, that one's really good. - Yeah. - 'Cause I don't even know what the context is. - I don't know what the context is either. - I kinda like that one a lot too. - All right, let's find out though, go on. - All right. And the best out of context clip this year is...

- Why is it me again? I don't know, I kinda like being a misogynist. - That was crazy. - I thought it would be Connor saying, "Bitches." - Yeah, that one was also good too. - Oh my God. - Oh my God, all right, let's see who, well, let's see what the layout was. - Oh wow. - 25%. Second place is, "I didn't see the cock."

- I thought it was not attacking me and then I'm about to have sex with one of you. - Oh, that's good too. - Damn, damn. - Oh my God, that's great. - Yeah, they were all fucking wild. Well done Garnt for your first- - Should we watch it again just to- - Which one? - This one to just see. - Yeah, let's see. - I don't know, I kind of like being misogynist.

- It's just the fact that it's just like so in thought. - Yeah, you said it so earnestly. That's what got me. - Jesus Christ. All right, let's move on to the next one though. Next category is the best screen grab of the year. These are Rosebangers as well. All right, let's see the nominations. We got, Jesus Christ.

- Why is that always a cursed monkey? - What the fuck is that? - So we got the cursed monkey. We got close enough, welcome back to Satoru Growshu. - I didn't even know what I was doing. - Why were you doing Yoiki Tenkai in the car? - He was just hitting it. - We got father and son. We got, what the fuck is that fucking one? - What are you doing in this? - What am I doing in that one? I don't know, Gaunt NTR.

- That's so well framed. - "A Talk in the Dark with Gigo." - That one's so diabolical. - I can't believe Mudon made a fucking t-shirt out of this. - Yeah, that was from a Mudon vlog. - You made a t-shirt out of this? - What the fuck? - 'Cause there's just so many good screenshots from that video. Next screen. - Oh. - You're on.

- What is that? Who is that? - Oh God. - Chris' fucking dump truck. - I didn't even see that. - He's got his ass to be huge.

- Oh God, it's so good. - All right. - Oh my Lord. - What do you guys hope will win this one? - I don't know, probably the one with Garnt. - The one with Garnt has to win this. - It's too cursed. - No, it's so cursed. - Whenever Garnt and photography is involved or screenshots are involved, you're just so good. - Why? - I don't know what it is. - You have a knack for being so cursed on camera. - Yeah, legitimately.

- All right, let's find out then Connor. - What is the winner this year? - The screen grab can be the best of the year and the winner is, the best screen grab of the year, Gant NTR. - I mean that one is framed perfectly. 21%. - Oh wow, the cursed monkey is second. - No, no, second one is the cursed Gant one. - Oh it is, sorry, sorry, sorry. - And then the monkey one. - Oh yeah, oh sorry, I was wrong, I was wrong. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Wow. - I mean, they were kind of close. - Honestly, great framing with the kiss. - Yeah. - Having me there in the foreground. - It's just hilarious just how normal it is to see Max and Chad kissing like dudes. - Oh, it's you, you're kissing. - Is it me? - I thought that was Max. - Wait, wait, wait, wait. - Oh, that is me. I thought that was Max. - Bro, it's you. Bro, brother.

- No, it's you. - Do you have any recollection of this Joey? - I remember now I was very drunk. This is the Australia special, right? - Yeah, yeah. - All right, well, well done. Well done Garnt, another W for you. - Congrats, congrats. - I'd say that's a W for you Joey, if anything. - Is it? - I'm glad my kiss with Chad did not go in vain. - Yes.

- All right, let's go to the next one. - Most degenerate moment. - Speaking of which, most degenerate moment. - Oh God. - Let's see the nominations. Garnt losing his wife to a video game, Sydney's "Lost in Deep Space". Obsession, Connor would plow baseball ditto. - Okay, why don't we play the video? - Yeah, let's play the video. - Oh yeah, let's play the videos. - I've lost my wife to a video game.

- A mobile game. - Oh no. - Why did I word it like that? Why did I word it like a fucking- - Like she died. - Obituary or something. - You can see that Connor and I were genuinely worried for a second, like what? - Sydney's "Love in Deep Space" obsession is pretty damn fucking degenerate. - Oh yeah. - As we have seen the scenes from "Love in Deep Space." - Absolutely. - You know. - Yeah. - All right. - Next one is Connor would plow bass form ditto. - I'm also okay with just fucking bass ditto.

- We were having a bro moment and you just dropped that. - I still stand by what I said. I think that it would be enjoyable. - I mean, I'm not too sure if I agree, but. - Why? - I mean, we discussed it in the episode. - All right, next one is the boys reading and explaining the story for "My Girlfriend Isn't Here Today." - Oh God.

- Oh, it's the entire clip. - That's the entire clip. - Oh yeah, we don't just go over that. - All right, and I'm assuming it's the same thing as Joey and Connor summarize their experience with domestic. The two of these are just me torturing the boys. - Yeah, Garnt is just torturing us. - With shit I recommend to them. - Jesus Christ. And then we also have, would we risk death to bang? - What about every time you have sex, there's a 10% chance the person you're having sex with dies. Would you do it?

- No. - No. - What's the percentage where you'd take that risk? - I wouldn't. - I wouldn't. - 1% I would. - That's so, so low chance of happening. - I feel like if the other person is at risk of dying, I don't want that on my conscience. If I fucking die, I'm like- - That was on me. - I went out like a king. I went out doing what I love. I regret nothing. - Okay, how about this then?

- I think you could probably find a partner who would be like, I'll take the risk. The 1%. - Really? - I think they would. - Oh, they definitely would be. Because there are definitely some people that would think that's the spice. That's probably a kink. - True actually. - Like every time we fuck there's a 1% chance I die. - It's no different from being in public. - The kink is potential death.

- Think about it. Imagine this kink, okay? I'm gonna make a kink right now. Every time you have a 1% chance you'll die, but you're not gonna find out until you orgasm. So you still get to enjoy the sex, but every time you orgasm, you might- - The closer you get to the orgasm, the more you're like, "Ooh, I might die right now." - Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly, right? - I'm about to die! - And then you survive and you're like, "Holy shit, that was incredible." Oh!

- I beat the odds this time. - Life and death experience. And then we have one from Patreon here. - Oh, okay. - It's the Patreon unhinged Bakugou confession. So for those of you who aren't part of our Patreon, which by the way, you should, because you're gonna get to see a brilliant stuff like this over there, but let's play the clip. - Oh my. - I am obsessed with drawing Bakugou from My Hero Academia's butt booty naked. - With a pussy and getting railed.

I have frequent fantasies about him farting on other characters, specifically Kirishima's face and taking hot steamy dumps for pleasure. I wish I was joking, I really do. He's my favorite anime cocks... Oh, I don't wanna read this. And I don't even like MHA like that. He shouldn't have those fat titties and a snatched waist if he doesn't want to get raw dogged. You know, there's not much I regret in my career.

Me reading this out and this audio existing online now is definitely one of them. - Do you know what this year has taught me guys with this clip and everything that we've had around "Love in Deep Space"? We are merely the apprentice to the girls, man. They know how to goon.

- They are the pro-gooners, man. - We are, but still climbing up the giant staircase to the Shaolin Goon Temple. And there are people like this waiting at the top. - We can't fathom to beat these people. - No, they are up in the clouds for us. We're struggling to get up the stairs.

- Well, you know what boys, personally speaking, I hope that Patreon clip- - That one has to win. - That one has to win. - That one's got to win. And the only reason it wouldn't win is because there's a Patreon clip. - True. - I think it'll still win. - I think it'll still win, but let's find out. All right, here we go. The most degenerate moment of this year goes to the Patreon Bucket of Confession.

- It's not even close. - I don't bet you. - Oh my God. - 42%. - 42%. - Second place, 21% is "Gone Losing His Wife".

And then Connor would plow based it. - Three quarters of this is- - Over three quarters. - Yeah, over three quarters. - That's not surprising. - Jesus Christ. - Not surprising. Two fifths of the people voted for that. - Well, congratulations to that Patreon member who sent us that confession. I hope you're proud. I'm sure you are. - I'm sure they are. - I hope it's fake. - I don't think it is. - I don't think it is. - It was too specific. - Yeah.

- It's definitely worrying. - Like I said, girl-gooning is on like- - It's another level. - Another level. - It's another level. - Thank God Patreon is anonymous. - And I can only respect it, honestly, at this point. - I do respect it. - I wish to learn. - I wish I had one tenth that power. - Yeah, legit. - Well, fair play. - Yeah, congratulations.

- All right, let's go on to the next one. - Next topic. Best bro should not have let him cook moments. - I'm not entirely sure what this entails, but let's find out with the nominations. - Yeah. - Oh God. - Okay, the first one is Connor. Sauerkraut is just white people kimchi. - Dude, that's fair. - You know what? I think we actually all agreed on this. - Every restaurant I went to, I was like, can I get a set of sauerkraut with this? And I was eating it and I was thinking that, and I was eating it and I was like,

- This is just white people kimchi. - I think you were cooking there. - Yeah, I think you were cooking. - I think you were cooking. - We let him cook and he cooked up a meal. - I was cooking with the next one. I'm cooking with this one, guys. I'm cooking with this one, guys. - Fiberglass looks delicious, really Garnt? - Objectively, like if you don't know it's fiberglass, you don't know what it is. It just looks like cotton candy. Come on. - Let's play it. - Come on guys. - Let's play the clip. - Do you ever have some shit that like, you know, like,

that you know is dangerous, but there's a part of your brain that is just like, "Looks delicious though. It looks delicious." - Give me an example. - Yeah, you gotta give an example. I don't do this. - Yeah. - Fiberglass. - You know what I mean? - There's not a crumb in my body. - Not a crumb in my body that thinks that. - You've never looked at fiberglass and thought that? - No. - No. - This looks like cotton candy. - It's glass. - I know it's glass, but I'm talking about the look, man. - Nah.

- That's not gonna win. That's not gonna win. - No, we didn't let him cook with that one. All right, second one is, oh, let's go back to the toilet take. Connor shining a blue light down his toilet to defend his toilet cleaning take. - I don't put the gloves on for that. - I mean, I used to toilet brush sometimes, but I just feel like it doesn't get in there enough.

- First of all, I don't know how oily your toads are. - No, no, 'cause I feel like for it to be, 'cause you know, I have the blue light. Sometimes I check with the bristle sponge. The bristle sponge just doesn't get like soapy enough or enough to like get in there. - Are you showing a blue light in your toilet? - Yeah. - You can even not be laughing in the background.

- The bro's doing like a CIA operation. - Yeah, make sure it's clean. - Forensics down his toilet. - I also have a blue light, so I guess I'll use it. - Fair enough. - All right. - All right, next one is this one, the cyclathon. Garnt explaining the plot of "Domestic Girlfriend" to Chris. - We don't need to watch this. - Yeah. - We've already, I've done it. - This is self-explanatory. - How many times? - Chris is just in disbelief, as you can imagine. - Yes. - Definitely. - Yes. - Next one, smashing chat GPT wouldn't be the same as smashing Siri? When did you say this?

- This is a conceptual fuck. ChatGP, what? - Yes. - Yes. - No. - Yes. - What's wrong with that guys? What's wrong with that? - You can't do that, Garnt. - Yes. - So what you see, so let me, you see a hole? - No, no, no, no, no, no. - This is like saying like, oh yeah, I'd fuck Siri. - ChatGPT is different from Siri. Thank you very much. Look, ChatGPT is way different from Siri, okay?

- This is what gooners in like 20 years are gonna be saying. - Yeah, that's true, that's true. Out of every clip that's probably gonna age the most poorly, it's probably gonna be this one when people are actually trying to like bang AI in like five years or shit like that. - No, yeah. - What is this last one? - And then this last one is Connor would turn Chinese if he got struck by lightning. - What the fuck is this about? - Why? - I don't remember this. - I would just like flip my personality.

I would be 180. I'd pivot and everyone would believe that the lightning caused it. No one would doubt it. - It's like, yeah, Connor's saying he's like Chinese now. - I don't know what happened. - I did not intend to become Chinese.

- Connor turned Chinese. - I just wanna know what's going on in your head. Connor's like, yeah, my personality's just flipped. So, and Joey took that as, so you turned Chinese now? - Yeah, 'cause the title was like, that doesn't sound like something I'd say. Like, I don't feel like I would argue that. But yeah, I guess it makes sense that Joey would. - God damn it. I don't even know why I said that.

- All right, well, there's gonna be one winner. - All right, let's find out. - I'd love it if Connor got a double from his toilet take. - That would be pretty hype. - The best bro should have not let him cook moment goes to... Garne explaining the plot of "The Mr. Girlfriend's Interest." - Another W to Garne. - That wasn't even me.

- That was chat. It was chat that told me to do it. - 25%. - Wow, Chinese was second. - Chinese was second. - No, fiberglass was second. Oh wait, no, no, you're right. No, fiberglass was third. You're right. - Damn. - That was close though. All of these were really close. - Yeah, that was a really close one. - Damn, we had a lot of don't let him cook moments. - There's a lot to choose from. - There is, there is. - Jesus Christ. Well, well done Connor's chat.

- All right, let's go on to the next one though. We've got the saltiest moment. - Saltiest moment. - This is apt for them presenting this one. - Emily being forced to watch Sydney Rand about love and deep space and trash desk and not talk about it herself. - Dude, Emily was actually annoyed about this. - Really? - Oh yeah. - Like genuinely upset.

Like, and I spoke to Emily the next day. I could tell she was like annoyed. And I was like, what's wrong? I'm just annoyed about the trash taste. I don't want to fucking talk about Nosferatu. I wanted to talk about fucking love and beach face. Oh yeah, we've talked about Nosferatu. We should have brought it up. Yeah, we should have brought it up. I just made the...

Dumb assumption that I was like, we've talked about it once. The audience don't want to hear it again. Emily's got probably not too much to add. You know, let's talk about Nosferatu. Yeah. Emily was in it very deep. Emily's in it very deep. Jesus Christ. The second one is, oh, throwing it back to the past trash taste. Connor losing being crowned biggest Chad by 16 votes. That's right. I remember that. Yeah, mid-recording. Mid-recording. That's right. Oh my God.

- I remember that. Bro, that was such a magical moment. - That was not magical. - It was so funny. - Can you play that clip? - Yeah, can you play it? - What the? - It was the charity, bro. - Oh my God. - By nought points. - Here's the thing, I think the results just got- - Updated. - So it's by point one. - It was peat. - What the heck? - For a brief moment there. - That was great. - I understood how, I understood why people did January 6th.

- Stop the camera. - I was like, you know what? Nah, I get it now. I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

- Oh my God. And then we got two different ones from two different specials. This one's from the food special. Garnt having to eat raw enoki mushrooms and a lemon during the A to Z food special. - And then you got mayonnaise, which you didn't eat, right? The mayonnaise chicken. - Oh yeah, that's right. - Yeah, you got fucked hard in this. - Yeah, you did get fucked hard in that. - Meanwhile, Joey was eating like a king.

- No, I was eating like 17 kings. There was so much fucking food. - Dude, the Ichiran was so good though. - When I was at the Ichiran and I got like garlic. I got garlic. - Garlic on rice. - And a lemon and raw enoki mushrooms all in one sitting. - Let's have a look at this clip then. - Fried fish. - Oh my God, he's actually doing it. - Oh, you can't eat all of that. Surely not. - I'm eating dirt right now. - Oh.

- It's actually sickening. I don't like it. I think I actually rather finish the lemon. - I was actually suffering. - That was a hard day. - Have you ever eaten a raw lemon before? Like a whole lemon? - Yeah, I said in the episode, I used to do it all the time. - Did you? - Yeah. - Did you not get the biggest fucking gag reflex? - No. - I almost threw up on like- - Really? - I almost threw up because I was like- - What the heck? - I think it might have been because all I'd had before was- - Mayonnaise.

- Mayonnaise, a clove of garlic and enoki mushrooms. But I had the lemon and I just started like heaving, like dry heaving. I was like, don't throw up. Don't throw up. Jesus Christ. - And then this last one here is from the Australia special. Waking up at 4:00 AM to hike up a mountain for the sunrise, then getting shit weather. - That's fucking awful. - Yeah, this was genuinely, we were genuinely salty about this one. - And not only that did we wake up at four, but we drove really fucking far out for it.

- And this was supposed to be the big finale as well. - This is the big finale we planned so far in advance for. We're like, this is it. This is... - Boys, I don't know about you, but I'm hungry. Do you have anything that could fill my stomach? - Well, luckily for you, Garnt, inside of this beautiful Ichigo Sakurako box, you are the best snacks in all of Japan. - Is that because this episode is sponsored by Sakurako?

Yes it is, gotta let me to get in there. Sakurako is a monthly Japanese artisan snack box that supports local makers across Japan. Each box is carefully curated with traditional and seasonal snacks like mochi, dorayaki, manju, and more. Including signature Japanese teas and an exclusive homeware item, Sakurako delivers an authentic taste of Japan

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- Whoa, do you see that crunch, boys? That's classic Japanese snacks right there. You know that's gonna be good. - Oh, that's so good. I'm so glad I haven't had my lunch yet so I can pig out on this. - And each box contains this cultural booklet featuring snack descriptions, hours of information, and fun insights about Japanese culture. - But of course, boys, don't forget about this month's exclusive homeware item. We have beautiful Wakasa Laka chopsticks,

Plus it comes with its very own tea pairing for this month, the Chiran Ryokucha. - Oh, I love those. - I love them. - You can pig out on whatever you want, guys. Sweets, savory, Sakurako has it all. - So guys, what are you waiting for? All you need to do is click that link in the description or use code TRASHTASTE and you get $5 off your first purchase. - Now, if you don't mind me, leave me to my snacks 'cause I'm gonna eat this entire box. - Thank you to Sakurako for sponsoring this episode. Back to the show.

- Beautiful moment, gonna be beautiful scenery, beautiful landscape. And this is what we were greeted with. Play the clip. - Play the clip. - Look at that sunrise guys. - Oh my God. It's cut. Oh, I can see it. - Oh my God. It's so beautiful. - Yeah. Oh God. - Oh, this is amazing. - Oh wow. - Oh God. - It's so bright. - Joey, thank you. - I can't look in my eyes. I hate this. - Thank you so much.

- How long do I move on edited this? - I don't know how scary it was. Cause it was so windy. - Yeah. - And we were just standing on a rock. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Like over a cliff. - Yeah, over a cliff. And it was like this weird sense of like imminent doom. - Yeah. - It was really weird. - Like if a huge gust of wind came. - Yeah, we were fucked. - We would've been fucked. - It was kinda dangerous to be honest with you. - Exactly. - Oh my God. All right. Well, there's only one winner. Connor, why don't you let them know?

- I'm just scared it's gonna be me. I just don't want it to be me. - I have a slight suspicion it's gonna be you. - I just think it is the saltiest, so. - It'll be really symbolic a year later, you're gonna win an award for it. - And the nominees for the saltiest moments. The winner is, of the saltiest moment of the year.

- Connor Luke. - Yes. - Hey Connor, look, you may have lost an award and now you've got an award. - Well deserved. - Why don't we recount Justin? Oh no, it's not even close. - It's not even fucking close. - And then Emily winning with 24% with the second take.

- Oh my God. Yeah, well, I think we all saw that coming. - Yeah. - We all saw that one coming. - Well done Connor. - You got the award. - Yeah, you got an award. - I don't want this. - You got it. - I don't want this one. - All right, well, maybe this next award Connor might have a chance. - Yeah. - Because we have the most monkey moment. - All right, a category close to my heart. - All right, let's look at the nominations. First one, the boys mixing up Sweden, Switzerland and Denmark.

- Like they should know. - Did we? - They should know. - Did we? - I don't know, play the clip. - Completely like reliant on- - No, Sweden, Sweden. - The Euro, sorry. - The Swede Krona. - Type in like Swiss. - This is just Connor. This is all Connor by the way. - Whoa, whoa, whoa, don't throw me under the bus. - Wait, is it the Danish? There's the Danish one. Wait, that's what fucking, that's what Hart told me. - Which is also called the Krona, right? - Is it?

- Yeah. - What's the Danish currency? - Krone, it's the Krone. - Krone, oh my God. - That's the Swedish Krona and the Danish Krone. - Okay, I'm fucking serious. It was Denmark, not Sweden. - Yeah, yeah. - I know Sweden. I know you don't like being confused with Denmark. - And I'm pretty sure this was on the episode where we talk about a Switzerland trip. - Yeah.

- Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Probably. - That's right. - So we just threw everyone onto the bus. - Yes, unfortunately. - Oh well. - Oh well. - Sorry Nordic countries. We'll get it right next time. - Yeah, we'll get it right next time. This one is another throwback to last year's awards. The ending to last year's awards being cut early. - The best Trash Taste episode that you guys enjoyed the most this year was... - "The World."

The struggles of an...

- That's literally how the episode ended. - Oh my God. - Fuck. - I forgot that. - We had like 10, 15 minutes after that of like talking about everything and it just all got caught. - I don't know how the hell that happened. - I don't know either. I think that was Moodon just screwing up a little bit, but it was funny. It was funny. Speaking of Moodon, Moodon sacrificing IQ points and sleep for more hours in the day. Let's play the clip.

- Also it took me like six months until the first day I got to sleep eight hours. - This is all terrible advice. - Also to be clear, I got dumber, like noticeably.

- So like you need sleep to be smart. - Of course, yes. - Sleep is for, you know, if you learn things, that's how you memorize things. That's how your body recuperates. But also if you don't sleep enough times, I don't remember what the stats were, but like if you sleep less than two hours of required, you like lose,

like 20 IQ points, like a percentage. - Right. - 'Cause like you don't work that well. - Right. - And I think it was like- - A lovely fact check. - Yeah, I love that. - The first two, three months, I literally felt myself getting like dumber. Like I couldn't put together sentences that well anymore.

I couldn't like talk as like, I physically saw my mental decline. - I love how nonchalantly he says all this as well. - Yeah, right? - I just love- - He's one of those people who's willing to sacrifice himself for a test. - My favorite thing about Mudon and just talking to Mudon is just the fact that he just says the most insane shit in the most deadpan voice. - Yeah.

- All right, Connor going muffin mode. - I've never been able to recreate this. - What happened this episode? - It was a muffin with like pure peanut butter in it and it just sent me. - All right, and then the boys appreciating shit pics. - What? - What? - What is this? - But there have been times when I've had a shit so immaculate. - You do want people to appreciate it. - That is just like- - Oh no, no, no. I've had this, yeah, no. - Sometimes you've just laid the immaculate law. - I remember.

- I have to admit, there's a part of me that's like, God, I want people to see this. - I know, I know. Okay, so I haven't taken a picture, but I have done the thing where I've shown people. Oh, this is where I talk about my family trip to Japan of the shit so large that I couldn't flush it down.

And then the moment I brought my family to check it, it flushed down immediately. - Oh my God. The phantom shit. - The phantom shit. - Oh God. - And then not be- - I'm still waiting for a shit immaculate enough to send you boys. - Yeah. - You guys are gonna check the group chat one day and you're gonna see the most immaculate shit. - Yeah, it's sad to say my shit game has been pretty weak recently. - Yeah, me too. - I need more fiber. I've been like a sheep.

- Yeah. - Little droplets. - I'm like a goldfish too. - Yeah, it's not good. - Yeah. - And this last one is not being able to name one woman during the celebrity three by three. - Name a woman, Joey. - I'm trying. - Name one woman. - I'm trying. - You know the name of one woman, right? - I'm trying. - Just say the name of one woman that you know. - Joe, what's worse, all right? Us putting nine men on here or eight men and one woman.

- What's the worst look on trash tape? - You know a woman, right? Just say a woman. - I know a few of them. - Man, dude, I was put on the spot. - Yeah, that's why I was fucking with you. - Yeah, yeah. - 'Cause I knew putting you on the spot would make it so you couldn't name one. - Did I just say I know some women?

- Bro's literally getting married and he's like, I don't know. - Yeah, I don't know. - I know a woman. - Fuck's sake. All right, what do you think is gonna win this one? These are all pretty fucking funky moments, man. - Honestly, I mean, my favorite is the ending to the last year's awards. - I agree, I agree. - But I don't know. - It could be the name of a woman as well. - From my personal experience, I'm like, what the fuck was muffin mode? I remember we were about to film like an episode where we ask each other really deep questions and

- I remember Joey trying to lead the podcast for so long and he just had- - That was the worst episode to host. - Yeah, he had to take care of like a kindergarten kid here. He'd be like, "Ooh." - I just had like some kind of insane sugar rush and I was on a high. - I don't think we started until like 25 minutes in or something. But anyway, let's figure it out. - Is it me or is it you? - I think it's me. - You. - Okay, it's me. All right, most monkey moment of this year goes to...

- Not being able to name a woman. - I thought that might be able to. - No. - Congrats Joey. - Congrats Joey. - Congratulations. - Holy shit. - Oh wow, you won by a lot. - 38.2% of the votes. - You can name one woman right now though, right? - Aki. - Yes. - Who's not your partner, you can name one. - Can you name a woman? - Like a famous woman. - Just name a famous woman. - Like anyone, like any famous woman. - Michelle Obama.

- I think that's what I said in the podcast. - She's not a woman, she's a politician. - Motherfucker. - All right, well, cool. I think that's my first time winning the most monkey award. - Yeah, it is. - I'm proud of that. - Congrats, Joey. - Yeah, I like how they said the boys then. I was like, what was it? - Whoa, whoa, whoa. - Come on now, I could name one. - Yeah, it was the boys gaslighting one of the boys.

Fuck's sake. All right. Let's move on to the next one. We have the wildest guest episode. We have some pretty wild guest episodes this year. Yeah. So, but there can only be one winner. Let's find out. We've got Ludwig. Oh God. We're going all the way back to like the beginning of the year round Ludwig when we were in LA. Yeah. We've got Chris coming back. We've got coming back. Another guest, Carho. We got-

- ProZD, of course. - Yep. - We got the Giga Chad. - Yep. - Pete, we got Dydus coming back. We got Mudan coming back. We got Ahsan. We got Sydney coming back. We got Emily coming back. And then of course our latest one, we got Gaming Beaver. - Is that just all the guest episodes this year? - I think it's just all the guest episodes. - Oh, okay, okay. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I think it would have been weird to like leave one out. - Right, yeah, I was like, damn, it's a long list. - Although it would have been funny if we just left Chris out. That would have been very, very funny. I don't think anyone would have been mad about that.

- I can't remember because a lot of our guests this year, I think what we learned, it was like, we just wanted to invite people we'd know a lot of the times. And even James this year, who I think is our only new guest. - I think so. - Is someone we are just very, very familiar with and someone we knew we would vibe with. - And that was a fun episode. - That was a very fun episode. Just getting to talk about dinosaurs for the first time since I was a kid. Very, very fun episode. - True, true.

but there were some pretty wild episodes this year. - Absolutely. They can only be one winner. - All right. The wildest guest episode this year goes to... Congratulations, Sydney! - Oh, yay!

- That was a very wild episode. - That was insane. - 26%. - Oh my, wow. - And then Pete. - She. - And then Hasan. - She just dethroned Pete. - Yeah, wow. - Wow. - Pretty comfortably, I'd say too. A 7% margin, no 6% margin. - 6% margin. - Yeah, I'd say that's pretty fair. - It's the power of degeneracy, I guess. I thought Pete's episode was pretty wild. I think that was the episode we talked about our first kisses, right?

- Is that the one where you almost go into a car crash? - Yes, yes, yes. - Sydney brought great energy that episode. I think it was like a very chaotic episode. - Absolutely. - When is it? - Sydney was just saying things that you're like, why are you saying this? - Absolutely. But of course, thank you to every single guest who came onto the show. All awesome. But let's move on to the next one. We've got

- The best story. - And look at that, right from the get go. - There we go. - Pete's wildest date story of how he crashed a car. I don't know, I don't think we have to play this clip 'cause I think this clip is like 20 minutes long or something. - Yeah, I mean, I think most of these clips are very, very long. - All right. - Pete's, yeah, Pete had a wild day. We all had some pretty wild stories about our first kiss. - Yeah. - Except for Joey because he's the only fucking bastard who enjoyed his first fucking kiss. I can't believe it. - Yay. - But yeah, Pete's story was wild.

It's a fantastic story. And it's a fantastic story as well. If you haven't heard him tell it, you're missing out. Yeah, definitely. I got my mom addicted to Apothecary Diaries as well. That's just a fucking wholesome story. That's a very cute story. I still haven't told her that season two is out. Oh, shit. It's not ended yet and I know she... She's going to binge it. Yeah, she's going to want to binge it. I'm going to very slowly make my way through it. Yeah, she's going to want to binge it, but

If she knows it's out, she would not have the willpower. - Makes sense, makes sense. - We got Connor mansplaining satisfactory and what a manifold is to Cindy. - Cindy was not impressed with that. - This is the most boring moment. - This is one of the clip. I wanna see this clip actually. - Do you know what a manifold is? - No. - This is really fun to play. - Sounds really fun, yeah.

- Really excited. - And the horror is that sometimes the machines don't run at 100% efficiency. - Are we still talking about- - I was explaining manifolds to Sydney. - Oh, this is something new. What is- - Don't.

- Honey, this is interesting. - This is interesting. - This is interesting. - This is really interesting. - Sydney. - I like how you just, "All right boys, I'm out." - I'm out, hell yeah. - Oh man. - And then of course- - That was a good moment. - That was a great moment. And then of course we have the boys meeting the Swiss version of Pete, the goat.

- Of Switzerland. - Mario, yes. - Absolute goat. I really hope we can get him on the podcast one day. - Hopefully find himself in Japan. - Yeah. - I'm hiking in the mountains. - I'm hiking all the mountains of Japan. - I met a new friend. He's so cool, you should have him. - And then we got, Sydney was genuinely worried about Garnt. - Okay. - What's this one?

- Is he the only one? - No, that happens to everyone. - That is a universal dude thing. - It's a big dick problem. We got big dicks. Fit in between the- - Because we were recording Trash Taste, I think it was like a month or two ago. - Yeah. - And I get a message from Sydney. I get a message from Sydney being like,

"Hey, we need to talk." I'm like, "Sorry, honey, I'm recording right now." - Yeah, what's up? - And I was like, "Okay, I'll call you afterwards." I mean, she said, "Call me afterwards, but we need to talk now." - Okay. - And she was like- - Serious, man. - Yeah, yeah, it was serious. - Wow. - And she was like, "So I was in your toilet, and there is a huge puddle of piss on the floor." - Did you forget to clean it up?

- This is not a good story. This is not a good story, okay? - It's just the story of God pissing on the floor. - Wait, did you piss on the floor? - No, we had this entire conversation. I just did not notice that I had pissed on the floor.

- I didn't notice, otherwise I would have cleaned up. - How do you not notice? - I just did, okay, sometimes, let me explain. - Is it when your penis gets stuck in the- - Yes, yes. - Oh, in the crack. - It gets stuck in the crack. It was right before Trash Taste recording. So you know how every poo-poo is a pee-pee, but not every pee-pee is a poo-poo? Well, I was doing a poo-poo.

And I didn't notice that I was also doing a pee pee. Now when you do a poo poo and you pee pee, right? Normally you can't hear the sound 'cause it's like not hitting the water. It's the sound of the toilet bowl. But sometimes when you poo poo and pee pee, the piss doesn't go in the bowl, but just runs down the rim.

down the rim onto the floor. I'm sure some of the female viewers are a bit confused how this happens. The way that this works is that obviously when you pee, your penis kind of like a, if you would imagine a wacky waving inflatable tube man, it kind of gives itself life. And so it often goes at an angle enough

where you don't really feel anything, but it's going through the fucking threading the needle, going through the toilet and the toilet seat. - It's like when you turn on the shower really high pressure, the shower hits back a little bit, right? - And that happens. - And because of the water tension, sometimes when you try to pour water, instead of like pouring, it runs down the room. That's exactly what happens with it. And so what happened is a huge puddle would form. - I thought you were senile.

- What I don't understand is how did you not notice when you got up? - I noticed like right away. - Yeah, I would notice if I got up and pulled my pants down. - I just say, I don't know. I don't know how I didn't notice, okay? It just- - That's so fucking funny. - That's so funny. I was in a hurry. I needed to get to a trashy recording. I just did my business.

I bidet that day and I just fucking ran. That's it. - Taking an Uber to meet the King is also very funny. - This is very funny. - Just imagine being the random Uber driver. It's like, yeah, just go into Buckingham. - Go into Buckingham. - Not around, not there, into Buckingham palace. - Oh my God. - Great story. - There's only one story that can win that. - God, I hope Garnt wins this one. - So many fantastic stories this year. Hard to pick.

- My favorite. I think all are very well deserving of that title. - Yeah. - So let's have a look. Drum rolls please. - Let's find out, yes. - And the winner of the best Trash Taste Story of 2025 is Pete's Wildest Date Story of Happy Christmas. - Of course, the goat is back.

This is like a scene out of like... Oh, it wasn't even close. 44%. The way he phrased, like told the story legitimately is like a scene out of like American Pie. He's just so good at telling these stories of his childhood. Yeah. I feel like he's perfected how to...

tell his childhood. - No, legitimately. - Maybe when I get to 40 years old, I'll be able to tell these stories as well as Pete. But probably not, I'm too senile already. - And then Chris taking "Good to Meet the King" came in at second place, very far behind though. - Oh, third place manifold. I'll take it. - Manifold. - I'll take it. - Take the bronze, take the bronze. - I'll take the bronze. It was a great moment. - Hell yeah. - I still think he doesn't know what it is. - All right, next.

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- Biggest Clown. - Biggest Clown? - Yeah. - Ooh. - Okay. All right, let's check out the nominations for Biggest Clown. Obviously we- - What the fuck? - I always forget you guys do this first. - Wait, Emily is a nominee this time? - Emily's a nominee this time. - Wow, congratulations, Emily. - Well done. - For getting into the nomination of Biggest Clown this time. - I hope Emily wins. - God, Connor, that picture is like my fucking paralysis demon.

- Jesus Christ. - I think this is from the live stream, I think, with the wide camera. I think I just love doing shitty faces. - It's the last thing I want to see in the dark. - Well, we'll keep this one short and sweet. - All right, let's go. - TSA agent when he pats you down. - Here we go. The biggest clown of 2025 goes to...

- It's Muffin, no Connor. - Of course it is. Of course it is. - Why is it me? What did I do? - In my head I was like, I know I'm not gonna win this. - What the hell did I do? - What the fuck? - That's the biggest landslide so far. - What the fuck? - Garnt and I are the exact same percentage. - 65%.

- What did I do? - I'm surprised how well represented Emily is in all this. - Yeah, Jesus Christ. - I can't believe I'm 60 fucking 5% of the vote. - Bro, me and Garnt's votes together wasn't even like a 10th of your votes. - I look horrifying there as well. - All right, but next category. - We're going to complete opposite. - This is going to be interesting 'cause,

We'll have a look at the nominations right now. Okay. But the real question is, can someone dethrone the king? I hope so. Oh my God. Look at that. Will there be anyone that could take the,

the heavyweight champion of this category, two times running. - Oh my God. - Just edging out the competition last year, but this year will someone take his crown? - Well, we got Sungwon in here for the first time. - Yes, we do. - So congrats, Sungwon. - We have Mudan as well. - I love that picture if you can't.

- Wearing the cycling glasses. - It looks like every tourist who goes to Mount Fuji. - Oh yes, I know, I know, okay. All right, let's find out. But the winner of this year's biggest chat is... - Please not Pete. - Three times running. - Three times in a row. - Oh, I'm so sick of Pete winning this. - Oh my God. - He never shuts up about it.

- Oh, it wasn't even close. - Oh, it wasn't even close this time. - Hey, Connor, you got second. - Yeah, I got second last time. Look at my margins. The pose, they lie. They lie, the pose.

- Moonon as well coming in third, congrats Moonon. - Oh my Lord. - Hell yeah. All right, next up though, we got biggest W of the year. - Oh, biggest W. - Okay. - Let's find out. - What are the nominations? - Let's find out. Of course we got the cyclathon four. We got Chris meeting the king and the emperor. We got the boys getting their parents into gaming and anime.

- Oh my God, Joey finally watching our game. - That's a pretty big W. - I would love it if Joey wins this one. - I swear to God, if I win this, I'm not even gonna be happy. - It's like raises a million for charity, meeting the king and emperor.

- Watching Arcane. - All right, let's look at the next page. - Garnt finally beating Melania. - Oh my God. - And then me appearing on Japanese and Australian TV. - All right. - Let's find out. - All right. - Who got the W this year? - Is there anyone you're hoping? - I want Joey to win. - Do you want Joey to win? - I don't want me to win. - I think it should go to the cycle thought. If I'm being honest with you guys. - All right. - All right. - All right, let's find out the winner. - The biggest W of the year.

goes to Cyclodon. - Thank the Lord. - Thank you. - You guys are level headed. - I think if you had proposed a little bit sooner. - Yeah. - Yeah, maybe. - Yeah, whatever. - Yeah, I was gonna- - Hurry it up next time. - I was gonna say, Joey, you didn't consider the Trash Taste Awards with your proposal, Joey? - Yeah, I should have been like, "Sorry, honey, I'm waiting for the awards to finish." - You should have considered, you know, and then moved it up, bumped it up a little bit.

- Hey, I got third though. - You got third behind Chris meeting the King in Connors Cyclothon. - Wow. - Jesus Christ. - Damn. Well, hey, it's an honor. I'm glad people enjoy it. - Hell yeah. - It was a lot of fun. And yeah, we'll try and do it again. - Deserved W. Deserved W. Congratulations. - Well done. - Appreciate you. Thank you viewers. - All right, here we go. Let's move on to the best meme of the year.

Have you guys been keeping up with the Trash Taste memes this year? No. I don't know either. No. So this is going to be interesting. I think these are all going to be new for us. So let's look at the nominations. Here we go.

- That first one is amazing. - That one is really good. - What the fuck? Oh my God, that looks photoshopped. - It's kind of crazy how one-to-one you are. - Oh my God. - That's insane. And what's this one? Neon Genesis Dr. Jellion? - Get in the collab video, Joey, or Connor will have to do it again.

- Oh my God. - Oh, this was in your castle video, wasn't it? - Oh yeah. - That's right. - Let's go next page. Joey reenacting, you must bounce on a crazy stuff. Is there a video? - You must bounce on it.

- Oh, that's the Nosferatu meme. - Oh man. - Oh my God. And then the boys reacting to steel ball run. Wait, what is this? - I haven't seen this one.

- I love how we all individually just have perfect clipper celebration. - I was like, what is this meme? I've never reacted to the steel ball. - Me neither. - That's so good. What's Trash Taste but it's gone is five times speed. - Welcome to this episode of Trash Taste. I hope you are comfortable with the sound of this as we all are right now. It's a short episode from "Bloodstained" ready for us to eat.

- I've not seen this one. - What the fuck? - What the fuck? - That was amazing, what the fuck? - What the fuck? - I've never seen that. - How have I never seen that one before? - I've never seen that one before. - Joey Badd followed by Upvote. - Is this when the subreddit just had a hate burner for me? - Yeah. - Is when you called you just guys in mid? - Oh yeah, probably.

- All right, oh my God. I really want the fucking, either the first Garnt one or this Garnt one. - Honestly, no, yeah. I mean, I quite like a lot of them to be fair. - That's just how I feel. - No hard feelings. - That's just how I feel with ADHD. - All right. Well, let's have a lucky one. - All right, the best meme of this year's awards goes to...

- You must bounce on a crazy style. - Wow. - That's an upset. - Probably because we wouldn't stop saying it during cyclothons. - Oh really? - We literally would not stop saying it. - Oh my God. I didn't think that was gonna win. What the fuck? - Yeah, it was like the joke of our cycle. It was all we kept fucking saying.

- Yeah, I don't know why. - Why? - I don't know, 'cause we just kinda had fun with it. - It's just so fun to say it. - It just stuck, yeah, it just kept sticking. - Yeah, and then "Gaunt in Five Times Speed." Oh yeah, "Gaunt in Five Times Speed." - I mean, that's definitely the best edit. - Yeah, that's the best one. And then, yeah, the first "Gaunt" meme. - Oh, such a good image. - Oh, that was so fucking funny. - Wow. - Good results, good results. - Well, that's an upset. All right, cool, cool, cool. Let's look at the next category, that being the best Nudon fact check. - Ooh, I'm excited for this one.

- How many of these are gonna be me? - Yeah, that's the real question. - It's gonna be all of you. - All right, let's look at the nominations. We got Muran fact checking Connor's method for cleaning his toilet. - This clip was the clip of this year, I feel. This is like what, the fourth appearance it's made this year? - This is the take of the year, man. - I can't believe this was that bad. - All right, and the second one is you could pick up cow manure with your hands and just clean it. - It's the same argument. - It's like 20 seconds later.

- It's legitimately the same conversation. - I'm not saying there's no bad bacteria now, I'm just saying clean it off. - And what's the third one?

- Moodon fact checking himself about sleep deprivation. - I mean, he was right. He was like, "I've become fucking dumb." - Yeah, yeah, no, you're right. So two of these are Connor from the same conversation and one is Moodon calling himself out. - Okay, well, I hope it's Moodon. - Oh, that'd be funny. - Mine's a split vote, hopefully. - Let's find out. - All right, and the best Moodon fact check of the year goes to... - No!

- Mudan fact checking himself. - Wow. - Congratulations Mudan with that. - Was it a split? Oh, wasn't even close. - Whoa. - No. - Whoa, 60%. Jesus Christ. - I mean, it makes for a great title. - It does. - Yeah, Mudan fact checking himself. It's a great headline. - Calling himself out. - Yeah. All right, well, let's have a look at the next category. - All right, congrats Mudan. - Congrats. - And also thank you for all the fact checks. - Thank you, Mudan. - Yes. - All right, best drip.

- All right. - Let's see the nominations. - SirAffable. - Pete, me, Garnt, Connor, Mudon, and Garntstad. - Garntstad's back! Garntstad with the OPI shirt! - Wait, has he done any new updated drip this year or is it a carry over from last year? - Is this, did I tell the OPI shirts story? - I think it was last year. - Yeah, he was there last year. I think he actually won last year.

- He won because of my wedding last year. - Was it? - Yeah. - Is he really? - I remember your dad winning one of the awards last year. I think it might've been for best drip. - All right. - Let's find out. - Let's find out. And the best winner, the winner for best drip goes to... - Garnt's dad! - Congratulations, dad. - Deserved. - Thank you for wearing. - Oh my God. - Oh my God.

Thank you for wearing, continuing to wear all of my merchandise and my old shirts. - How is Chris second? - I have no idea. - Dude, you know what I realized after going through my dad's wardrobe this time I was in Thailand? You know how normally you get hand-me-downs from like your- - He gets hand-me-ups. - He gets hand-me-ups.

Most of it is my very old shirt. - Oh my God. - And he doesn't care how degenerate they are for some reason. - Your dad dead ass is the only one who can rock that old pie shirt 2025 dude. And everyone will be like, "Fucking yeah, nice." - I see him wearing like an anime hoodie of something I bought 10 years ago. I'm like, "Dad, why are you wearing that?"

- He just makes it work, look how happy he is. - Oh no, it just fits me. - Yeah, it just works. - Is it petanko? - Petanko. - Oh, petanko. What does petanko mean? - Petanko means flat.

- That's why it's insert or pie here. - Right, right, no, of course, yeah, no, of course, my bad. - Gant's dad's a huge advocate. - Right, right, no, of course, of course. Okay, what's the next category? - All right, next category. Best argument. Oh God, we had plenty of those this year. Joey arguing white isn't a color. - White is a color. - It's a shade. - Sorry, Joey, what color is the shirt you're wearing? - Well, the shade is white. What color is it? - So there's no colors on that shirt. - It's all the colors. - There's no colors. - It's all the colors.

- That's all white is, it's all the colors. - So it's a color 'cause it has all the colors. - Yes, it's all the colors. - Correct. - All of them. - Listen, I don't... - It's a shade. - I'm gonna die on that hill. - So when I see Connor, I can say I don't see color? - Yeah, he's a shade. - That sounds so much worse. - That sounds way worse.

- I don't see shades. - We wanna talk about Connor. I don't see color. I see a shade. - I see a shade. - We got January versus August, the great month debate.

- January's all right. - No, no, January's one of the worst. - I will not accept January slender. Like you're saying it's like the clear loser month. It's not the worst month. - January is the hang of the month. - It is not the worst, no. - Oh my God, get the fuck, I can't believe you guys think January is a better month. - Yes it is. - It is so much of a better month. - I will never forgive you guys. - ProCD coming back to defend Bochy is a good anime, which was also, yeah, it was pretty amazing. - Yeah, it was pretty funny. - He came out swinging at January. - Yeah, he did. - I got something. - What's up? - Bochy the Rock.

- Oh, he come out swinging. Okay, I'll let him take this one. Is scythe a weapon or a tool? I don't remember this one. - Oh, I think this is when we were discussing medieval weapon three by three. - Oh, right, right. - Yeah. - Come on, man. Come on. - It's just not a weapon. - It's right there. - Agricultural hand tool. - Look. - Yeah, it's not.

- Being overly competitive is good. - Oh, this is the red flag. - Only Connor thinks so. - Did I really? I feel like I don't think that. What are they arguing? - I don't remember. Let's see this one. - All right, a friend is very competitive and likes to turn almost everything into a friendly competition. - Oh, why didn't you call out Connor? - All right, so is Connor a green or a red flag? - Dude. Three, two, one.

- Green. - Red. - It's a green. - I'm just gonna call it out, bro. Don't you fucking, beige flag, Joey? - Yeah. - Beige fucking flag. You're such a liar, Joey. - Look, look. - No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You are not surprising. I'm gonna call Joey out. - Joey the fence sitter is back once again. - I think what you're trying to argue, 'cause I do remember your argument, so I'll repeat it to you, 'cause I'm the one who has to argue against you here. - Okay.

is that you were arguing that by being competitive, you make things more fun. - Yes, you do. - Debatable. Depends who you play with. - Which is debatable. - Back in the day when we used to slap each other with gloves to have duels, we'd be a jolly good bit of competition. Good for the mental. - No, you'd be one of those motherfuckers who would be like, someone would slap you with a glove and then you'd be like, "Is it ranked?" Otherwise I'm not playing. - Team deathmatch? - I mean, out of all of these, like,

So, you know, sometimes we play things up for the camera. Sometimes we argue our points, especially with some of the games that we do. I am still legitimately pissed off that you guys think January is not the worst month of the year. - August is the worst month. - Genuinely. How the fuck is this even like an argument? January and like January, the first two months of the year are just the worst. - It's because January doesn't have a heat that makes me want to kill myself. - Who cares? There's January, everything's dead.

You come back to work, it's literally the Mondays, it's literally the Monday of months. No one likes Monday. And you guys are arguing for Mondays here. - I don't see weekdays. - Oh my God. Okay, well, let's see which- - I know what I want to win. I really hope that wins. - All right, let's find out. - Let's see which argument takes it. - Best argument of the year goes to...

Oh, we already saw it. Pro CD coming back on to defend Pochi. - It had to be this one. - I had a feeling it was this one. - He's just got such a good adversarial energy. - Yeah. - He came on swinging and he didn't take any shit. - I've never been more afraid to argue with someone on camera.

- I don't even think he knows what he's talking about sometimes. It's just the energy he stares at you with. - It's his voice. - Yeah, he has such an intimidating voice. - He just has an authoritarian voice. - It was the calmest argument. I felt more like a dad lecturing and you're like, "Oh, shit." - It's like when your dad's like disappointed. - Are you disappointed? - Yeah. - I remember the first time I made someone laugh and I was like, "Oh my God."

- What the fuck? He like smiled and was happy for a brief moment. I was like, what the fuck? - What was the percentage of this one? - Oh, it's gotta be like- - I think it was like not even close.

- Oh yeah, pretty much. - 38%. - I'm not surprised. - Second place is you don't need popcorn for a great cinema experience. - I'm glad people enjoyed the argument. - And then the January versus August debate. - I will not go to the theater if there's no popcorn. I've just said this. Okay, let's continue. - All right, let's continue. Let's go the complete opposite side of the spectrum though with this one and go with the most wholesome moment. - Was there a wholesome moment this year? - I don't know. Let's find out. - Of course there was. - Let's look at the nominations. Feeding the kangaroos during the Easter. That was wholesome.

- That was very wholesome. And then obviously Garnt's mom with Apothecary Diaries. We got Connor presenting Mouse on stage at the awards. We got Pete announcing he's gonna be a dad and then Mudan finishing his daily vlogs and saying goodbye. - You know what, there was some wholesome- - Wow, that's super fucking awesome. - Sometimes I feel torn with like, for example, Pete announcing he's gonna be a dad. I'm like, that's not really a- - It's not trash taste. - It's not trash taste. Is it the most wholesome thing out of our friend group this year? Yes, but I feel like,

- Us for the Trash Taste Awards? I don't know about that. - I'll give an exception for this. - Look, yeah, he is the most, yeah. - It's the wider TTCU, you know? - Yeah, but then I feel bad that I'm like, he's just a fucking side character in our universe. - In our universe? - That's not fair. - In his universe. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- I mean, in our friendship, it is by far the most wholesome. - Oh, absolutely. - Absolutely. - All right, well, let's find out who's winning this one. I have a strong suspicion it's going to be Pete. If it's not, then I'm gonna question our audience. But let's find out, Garnt. - All right, well, the most wholesome moment this year goes to...

- Of course it's Pete. And now of course, congratulations again, Pete. - Congratulations. Congratulations. - That is awesome as fuck. - That is awesome. - Let's see how, yeah, it wasn't even close. Half the votes. - Oh wow. - Half the votes. And then Connor presenting Mouse on stage and then Moody- - To play devil's advocate with Connor though. It was just like, yeah. - That one too, that one too. - But at least I'm on the podcast. I'm a part of this fucking show. - What did Pete do? He just- - What, Pete's one episode a year he comes out. I feel like, you know.

All he did, which was consummate. That was it. - Fucking consummate a baby. Give me 20 minutes in golden guy. - Actually the funniest thing is, is that the top three were not even on track. - Yeah, I know. - Oh my God. All right, well, congratulations Pete for another dollar. - Well, I mean, it's obviously just like as well,

- The show itself is apparently not a vehicle for wholesome. - It's a trash taste, of course. - But yeah, no, congrats to Pete. - All right, let's move on to the next one. What do we have? The most privileged moment. - Oh, it's after that I'm presenting this one. - Yes, yes. - Okay, let's look at the nominations. The boys buying Swiss watches. - But having said that, we did buy watches. - We did, we did. I didn't go crazy. I got a nice watch, it looks nice. - Oh, that's the one, yeah. - That's the one. - Yeah, I really regret in this episode, one time I was like, yeah, this is like a cheap one. And then I was like, it's a thousand bucks.

And I realized, yeah, that sounds real out of touch when I say it like that. But I guess in the context of where we were, that was like the cheapest one. - Yeah, in the context of everything. - Which is crazy, right? - Look, look, after talking to Kevin about watches. - I bought like the McDonald's Happy Meal of Swiss watches. You know what I mean? So to me in that context, and then I realized, wait, no.

- No, yeah, that does sound really bad out of context. - And then we got Chris meeting royalty. - When I'd been recommended, I think it was the embassy to Japan or the Japanese embassy in one country recommended me. - Must have read the book. - Probably the book might have helped swing it, I reckon. - Probably the most. - Probably the most. Chris lucking out and getting first class flights. - Dude, he always brags to me about how he always finds the first class flights for like 2000 pounds.

- This isn't real, I don't believe you. - Also who asked? And then Connor just chilling whilst gone and Joey make the slam ball arena in the A's. - That is pretty privileged. - Also that's a banger album cover, I will say. - God, the composition in that shot, man. - Awesome. And then Joey buying canned air. - That's pretty privileged of you. - I don't even remember doing that. - Fuji, Fuji? - I've bought canned air before. - You have?

At Fuji, they sell Fuji canned air. This is, if you open it up and you smell it, breathe it in, it's like you're at the top of Mount Fuji. - What do you think is the most, like objectively speaking? - Objectively speaking? - Yeah. - I think it's either Chris meeting royalty or you in the Australia special. - I think it's the watches or royalty. - I think it's going to be Connor.

- I think it's the watches. - The watches? - I think it's the watches. - Okay, let's find out. - I mean, that is pretty privileged. - That is pretty privileged. - Oh God, I don't know whether to buy a $1,000 watch or a $10,000. Sorry, let's have a look. All right. And the winner for the most privileged moment of Trash Taste 2025 is Chris meeting Rob. I mean.

- Literally is there a more privileged thing than going to Buckingham palace? I mean, that is like arguably the most, it's fucking Donald Trump gets his fucking knickers in a twist about going. - 44%. - 44%. - And then the boys buying Swiss watches and then me buying canned air. Wow, all right. - Yeah, I mean, that makes sense. - Makes sense. - No one thinks Conor was privileged just to let us do the fucking building on the- - Yeah, what the fuck? - I don't think that's privileged. I think that's work smarter, not harder.

- It's just a standard group project, isn't it? - And then I had to go in the water. So I got my- - Yeah, exactly. - If you didn't go in the water, it probably would have been higher. - Yes. - All right. - But fucking cold as well. - Brings us to the biggest, I made it the fuck up. - Oh, is there like 20 pages of this? - I'm very good at this one normally. - I think we have a lot of nominees for this one. Oh, maybe not. So we got the boys trying to explain paradoxes and understand the Monty Hall problem. - If it didn't make intuitive sense, then it wouldn't establish

establish itself as something that makes sense. - I think paradox means something fucking different, mate. - Coldest answer I've ever gotten. - Yeah, apparently we were talking out our ass with this one. - No. - Apparently. - I understand it. - Yeah, I mean, we thought we did. - Maybe I can't explain it, but I understand it. - That might be it. You know what? That might be it. We got peanut butter is low in calories.

- Wait, did you say that? - I think I said that. - Oh, you said that. - Wait, wait, can I see the clip? - Yeah, I don't remember this. - Why are you gonna out me? - Why the fuck do you like peanut butter? - I don't know, it's great. - I think it's just so overrated. - It's just such a great strong flavor. - It's overrated. - Low in calories, I think. - It is definitely not overrated. - It's definitely not. - 200 calories per two tablespoons. - Nah, 'cause that's crazy. - That's crazy. - Okay, to be fair, tablespoons are pretty fucking big.

- Yeah, but that's still a fuckload of calories. - That's a fuck ton of calories. - And then from the same conversation, peanut butter is made with real butter. - Okay, that's funny. - No, no, no, they combine peanuts and butter to make peanut butter. - No, that can't be right. - Peanut butter is simply ground peanuts. - Fuck! - No, no. - He's so confident. - No way! - How did we spread so much misinformation in one fucking conversation? - Oh my God, why do we talk so much shit?

And then Budweiser is food, liquidized bread. I just found the food special. - That's true. - Yeah, the Michael Phelps just doped. - Yeah, I wasn't proud of this one. - Didn't he have like a fucking doping scandal? He had a doping scandal, right? - One and done. - So I'm like, really? How much of that is his actual talent?

- Wow. - It was funny though, but kind of, yeah, it's sensitive. - Yeah, that was insensitive. My bad, Michael Phelps. And then you could pick up cow manure with your bare hands and just clean it. What's the big deal? Wait, we saw this in another one. - Like what's the big deal? - But I don't want to pick up cow manure with my hands. - I don't want to do that. - All right, what do you think is gonna win? I think it's one of the peanut butter ones.

- I want it to be Connor's peanut butter one. - I mean, I don't know. Maybe the Monty Hall one. - Could be the Monty Hall one. - I mean the Michael Phelps one is probably the most unfair thing to say. - Yeah, it's probably, yeah. - Wait, who said that? Was that me? - That was me. - No, that was Joey. - That was me. - Just the most like the goat of all time. - Yeah. - Nah, he's cheated. - Yeah, I definitely had a Mandela effect with that one. All right, anyway, let's find out the biggest I made it the fuck up award goes to...

- You can pick up cow manure with your pants. - I would do it. - Tell me you lived in the countryside. - I would do it. - Oh, that was really close though. - Oh my God, this was really close. - 23% and then second place is, oh, explain the Monty Hall. - I thought that was a good one too. - And then peanut butter is low in calories. - My favorite I made it the fuck up is when we're all wrong. - True. - Yeah, true. - I think like that's when it's at its best. - I think if the peanut butter conversation was one conversation that might've won. 'Cause I got split between two.

- That was one conversation. - Yeah, if you add it together, it would've taken only one. - Yeah, yeah, exactly. - Jesus Christ. - You can pick up manure with your hands. - Congrats, Connor. You pick up cow manure with your bare hands. - I would, I could just wash it off, right? - Which brings us to the best part

Patreon episode of the year. - So again, a big shout out to all the patrons who were there supporting the show. And if you guys don't know, by the way, every single week we release patron exclusive content where we play games, do all sorts of other stuff that we can't really do on a podcast setting like this.

And we asked you guys over on the Patreon to vote for the best Patreon episode of the year. And if you want to check out Patreon episodes, which by the way, there will be a brand new one right off of this one. You can support us over there at patreon.com slash Trash Taste. Links in the description. But let's find out. Is it like a selection of Patreon episodes? Because we did a lot of them. Yeah. Okay, let's go through some of them. So we got Minecraft Part 3.

- Wait, why part three in general? - Found that Eldritch monster or whatever it's called. - Oh, might've been, yeah. I think that was the last one we'd done. Well, clearly we have to do another Minecraft episode. We got the first Anime Club highlights where we watched the One Piece fan letters, as well as a bunch of other stuff. We've got Buckshot Roulette. That's actually quite a new one. - Oh, okay, okay. They really liked that one, huh? - Yeah. We got Risk Part Two.

- The finale, which we upload onto the Trash Taste after dark as a digest. - That was just a fun video to produce in general. - That was fun. - Which you can watch on the After Dark channel in highlight form. - Yeah, as a digest. - Yes. - We got Stick Fight the Game. That was just funny because Garnt was just trolling the entire fucking time and Connor was, I think, legitimately getting mad. - I was having a hard time winning. - And then we got Switch Sports, Drunk Switch Sports with Chris.

- Which you can also check out highlights on the After Dark channel. - Chris almost destroyed our set playing, what was it? - Oh my God, Switch Tennis. - Oh my God. - Remember like throwing the controller? - We got so intense at Switch Tennis. It was so fun. - We were not fucking around. - We were not fucking around. All right, let's find out then. What's the best Trash Chase Patreon episode? - To our patrons, the one that you voted as the best Patreon episode of the year goes to... - Oh!

- Our most competitive video yet featuring Chris. - Congratulations. - Congratulations. - Hell yeah. What do we get? - You can also watch some of these highlights on the After Dark channel. - You can actually watch this one on the After Dark channel. 30%. And then second one was Risk. - Yeah. I mean, I would say those were definitely some of the most fun to film. - Yeah, definitely. - Definitely checks out. - People like Bookshop Roulette as well in the anime club.

- Good to see. - And don't worry guys, there's gonna be a lot more where that came from. So again, if you'd like to support us over there and check out weekly exclusive content, patreon.com/trashtaste, check it out. - Which leads us to the final award of 2025. - Ooh, what's the award? - It is the best "Trash Taste" episode of the year. - Ooh.

- All right. - Which one will it be? Let's have a look at the nominations first though before we have a look. Obviously the Pete episode is back up there. - Of course. - The Prozy D episode is up there. Getting Our Parents Addicted to Anime, and I think My Dad and Video Games. Sitting Down with Sir Affable. - Chris episode. - And some more episodes are the Sydney one. And then the one where we faced our fears and watched. - Finally faced our fears and Joey watched

- Oh, is that the first Face Out Fears? - That was, it was a very, very popular episode. People really enjoyed that one 'cause we went through and watched a lot of the stuff that we were meant to be watching. - Oh man, so many great episodes. - So we have some absolute bangers this year. Some really strong contenders for best episode. - Yeah. - I like all these episodes. - I think this has definitely shown that,

- When we have a guest on that we've already had on, you know, having that extra little- - The chemistry. - Chemistry that we've built up previously just adds that little extra bit of spice. - Absolutely. - For the episode, which we very much enjoyed as well. I mean, at this point it's just hanging out with friends. That's what Trash Taste is. - Yep.

I did also want to give a quick shout out to the different specials that released this year as well. We had a few specials, especially the, I would say the food special, since we didn't have enough time to put it as a specific category. The food special especially was something that was simple in concept compared to some of the other specials we filmed previously, but...

- God damn, was that a fun video to film. - Yeah. - Turned out pretty well. - Super fun. - But there can only be one winner of the Trash Taste episode of the year. - Yep. - Let's go. - What is the Trash Taste episode of 2025? - Let's find out. - Let's find out. I don't know. - Drum roll please, boys. The best Trash Taste episode of 2025 goes to "The Giga Chat is Back." Pete again wins the best episode of the year.

- He just keeps taking the W's. - He can't stop winning. He keeps winning and winning and winning. - Oh, it wasn't even close. - By 34%. - Oh my God. - Jesus Christ. - I think it was a great episode. Pete always brings great energy. - Yeah. - Absolutely. - I do actually think my personal favorite was the one that came second, that we watched all of. - Oh yeah, the face. - 'Cause that was a really,

- It's an awesome episode, I think, the film. And doing a Pete episode is just like my Tuesday. I just hang out with Pete anyway. I'm glad people still love Pete. I mean, he's the gig of Chad for a reason. There's a reason why he won Chad of the year. - Well, congratulations, Pete, for an amazing, amazing episode this year. - You bastard, Pete. Again, we're gonna hear about it again from the end. - You just got too much riz, bro. - And normally,

In most other years, that is where we would end it. But this is a special one. This year is a special one because it has been half a decade since we started Trash Taste. When you phrase it like that, it's scary. Yeah. Half a decade. When you say five years, it's like, yeah, that's a long time. When you say half a decade, it's like, oh, that's a

long time. We have a lot more episodes than one piece runtime. Sorry than one piece. Yeah. More than top gear. Yeah, it's we've we've made a lot of episodes Jesus Christ and you guys are somehow still here to celebrate five whole years a half a decade of trash taste. We're going to be going through some special five-year awards, of

Of course, firstly, starting with something that is so trash taste. - I'm not looking forward to this one. - We have the most aged Paulie take ever. - I'm not looking forward to this one. - Paulie aged take, all right. What are the takes on this one? - Let's see. - I have no idea of the nominations for this one. - Okay, we've got, "The prophecy has come true." - Three of these are me, fuck's sake.

- All bread tastes the same. - Why is that the one take? - We don't even have to look at the clips. We know already. - I mean, that is probably the most infamous Brad take. - Absolutely. - All right. - We got Connor mentioning he wouldn't be able to do IRL live stream. - Look, I just want to experience the world. - Yeah, that's true. - Oh, my fucking goodness. - Oh, and this next one is also, I remember this one. Connor not getting YouTube. - I know, I know.

Oh yeah, because this is when Garnt and I were really into it. Yeah. And look where we've come. I do remember the first conversation when you were showing me Coco and I was like, "What the fuck is this?" I was like, "What the fuck is this?" And yeah, how times have changed. Is this when Garnt and I were simping over Coronet and stuff? Yeah, just like early Hall of Life. Water in the fire, why? In the fire, why? Not understand.

No! Yeah. And then we got the final one, which is Uzumaki remake being one of the best horror anime to come out for a while. It was like the stars had aligned in this to poorly aged because...

we pre-record episodes, people know. And Garnt just so happened to watch one episode before we did a pre-recorded batch. So this then came out like after the whole show had come out, it was fucking awful. So it was just like completely fucked. - Also, I slightly blame the show for doing a fucking bait and switch at episode two and just being like,

it's not what you would think. - Also, what I've learned now with anime being delayed is that almost it never works out. If there's a delay, it's normally for a pretty bad reason. - Yeah, totally. - Like a pretty big delay at least. - Oh, well, what do you guys want to win?

- I mean, these are all poorly aged, but- - These are all great. - I just love Connor contradicting himself. - Well, Connor has a 60% chance of winning this. So the odds are in his favor. And also like you have to understand like this is in the span of five years as well, right? So God forbid people change. - Exactly. - It is poorly aged. - It is poorly aged though. - All right, well, let's see which one won. - Let's figure it out. The most aged poorly take,

ever on Trash Taste goes to... - Please not me, please not me, please not me, please not me. - Connor not getting VTubers. - It has changed. - I mean, look, you were gonna win either way, I feel. Let's look at the votes. Did Connor get the top three? - Wow. - No, Garnt got third. - Well, I got top two. - You got top two, Garnt. - You got top two. I guess the bread take still lives with me to this day. I just, that was the only,

- Of course that was the only take there from just our usual arguments that people still will not let go. - That's true. That is true. Yeah. - Well, yeah, I mean, that's fair. I think it's most changed. - Yeah, the tables turned the most with that one. - It turned a hell of a lot. - Yeah. All right. Next up.

- We have best meme of all time. - Oh my God, five years worth of memes we're gonna go back on. - Five years worth of memes. - Oh my God, I mean, I think it has to be. - It has to be. - It has to be. - It has to be. - It's gotta be. - It has to be the dark timeline. - It's gotta be. - Let's find out. - It has to be the dark timeline. - We got the dark timeline. We got, oh, bang, bang, bang. I love this clip. - Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.

- No, it is good though. It is good though. - Woman basketball though. This one's a classic as well. - Oh my God. - Ah, woman basketball.

- I think it's just how much I fucking laugh. - It's just your guys' reaction. - We just fucking died. - Oh my God. - Netflix adaptation. - Oh yeah, that's an early one. - That was an early one. - Okay, what else we got? - What do we got? - Garnt talking about cock for one minute, 14 seconds straight.

- The "Dark Time Line" trailer, I remember that one. "Trash Taste, But It's All." - Oh, I love this one. - Oh yeah, when we were all different versions. - Can we watch the "Trash Taste, But It's All" blank? - Welcome back to this episode of "Trash Taste." And once again, I'm with the boys. And one, two, three, and have a breakdown, have a mental breakdown right now. Fucking assholes, there's no need to do that. What if I do a rip, an absolute massive fart?

- Oh God. - Oh man. - That's so good. - That's so good. - Hell yeah. And then we got the Trash Taste anime opening. - Which was great. - Yeah. - Which is a fantastic fan made anime opening someone made. - Oh my Lord. - I remember the Dark Timeline trailer was so well edited as well. - Oh, that was so good. - I mean, I feel like it just has to be the Dark Timeline. I think like, not only, even though I feel like it's almost,

devoid of us at that point, but it was just such a creative, cool thing to watch how people ran with it. - Yeah, it was our community coming together to make the most insane fanfic ever created. - And then like someone made a manga from it as well. - That's right. - It's an amazing manga. It was like, just the amount of effort put into this meme was truly like awesome to watch. - It's the first time I've felt like something that I guess spawned from us just,

- Yeah, it was so fucking cool. And the winner, the best meme of all time goes to the Dark Knight.

- If for some reason you're watching this and you don't know what this was, essentially Garnt was like- - It was a huge rabbit hole. - Yeah, it's just a whole rabbit hole. People basically spawned a whole Warhammer-esque lore from Trash Taste. It was just really cool and like really fun to follow. - It's a community made,

of me trying to save the boys from an alternate timeline because they were secretly dead. - It was so sick. - Yeah, it was awesome. - Let's look at the percentages for this one. - It has to be a blow. - Oh yeah, it wasn't even close, 35%. - Bang, bang, bang is pretty good too. - Women's basketball was a classic as well. - Yeah. - Well done, Talk Timeline fans.

- Great meme. - All right. And the next one is the best screen grab of all time. - Oh my God. - The single best screenshot from a Trash Taste episode. - I feel it's hard enough to choose like on a year basis, let alone a five year basis. - Yeah. - All right, let's have a look at the nominations. - All right. - Oh my God.

- Oh, we got some classic stuff. Oh, I'm not on here. It's all you guys. - Holy shit. This is bringing back so much nostalgia. The Connor wine and the Gantt. - That was the first one, eh? - And the Gantt sip. - Yeah. - And they have the wrong trucker image as well, which is unfortunate. That's not the right one. Aerodynamic American Gantt.

- I feel sorry for Garnt's penis. - Why is this three for you, three for me? - I don't know, sorry, J. - No, it's all good. - Come back in five years, buddy. - Yeah, you guys clearly have the better screen grabs. - I don't remember why I took off my belt. - I don't know either. - Also, I can never recreate that wine image. I've tried, I try so hard.

I can just never recreate it. It's just something about it. It's just so frustrating. It's the eyes, the face. Yeah, it's the everything. I can recreate the crooked sip image, I think.

- Oh no. - That's a great one too. - It's so good. - Yeah, they're all so good. I don't have a personal favorite. I just don't want to look at Garnt being aerodynamic anymore. - No, please don't. - It's either one of you two, so. - I've seen you in the onsen and for some reason this disgusts me. - It's because my, normally when we're in the onsen- - I just see the whole girth there. But seeing it squeezed into such a small package is just wrong. - Yeah, okay. We don't want to get demonetized. - True, true. Sorry, I apologize. - All right, let's figure it out.

- Damn, but the best screen grab of all time in the Trash Taste extended universe, if you will, goes to Connor Wine! - I mean, yeah. - I mean, iconic. - I feel this is like the screen grab that started all the screen grabs. 'Cause this is from like,

- God, like not even, I think it's before episode 10. - I think it's one of our first drinking episodes. - I think so. - I don't even, yeah, I genuinely can't recreate it. - By 32.4%. - And then it was a two-way tie between "Sadgun" and "Aerodynamic Catastrophe." - Damn. - God fucking damn it. - Again, I couldn't recreate it. I've tried on numerous occasions. It's impossible for me. - It's just the perfect, like,

- A thousand yard stare look along with just the privileged. - It's just the pretentious. - The pretentious privileged look on your face. - I wish I could recreate it. - It's like, yes, peasant. - God damn it. Yeah, it's an art form lost to time. We wouldn't know how to build it again. - Sure. - But what's the next category? - The next category is the second to last category, boys. - Yes. - We have the best trash taste special

- This is hard because there have been some super fun specials to film. - And of course all funded by you guys over on the Patreon. If it wasn't for you guys, we would not be able to do any of these specials. So huge shout out to you guys, whether you just joined yesterday, you've been here since the beginning. But let's go through all the specials that we've done. Well, it's not all of them, but.

- It's the six best ones, definitely. - Yep. - We got the Hawaii special. We got the cycling special, the Japan road trip special, our first drifting special, the A to Z food special and the Australia special. - Wow, I thought that, I was afraid that we would either get recency bias or like the old ones, but this is pretty much an accurate representation of-

- Like the evolution. - Every period of trash taste so far. - Yeah. - It's some new ones, some old ones, some,

- Some high budget ones and some maybe lower budget ones as well. A little bit of everything. - Do you have a personal favorite on the list? You have to say it, but do you have one in your mind? - I do have a personal favorite. - Me too. - Out of this one. And not just in terms of the actual video, but also like just how much fun I had filming it as well. - Yeah. - Why are we not saying it?

- I just don't wanna- - 'Cause it might be the winner. - Yeah, I don't wanna like ruin the- - I'm hoping it's the winner. - We can talk about it after. - Yeah, we can talk about it after. - We can talk about it after. - We can talk about it after. - Okay. - 'Cause we have plenty of time. - Yes. - Let's find out then, boys. The best Trash Taste Special of all time goes to the Cycling Special! - Hey!

- That's my favorite. - Yeah, that's my favorite too. - Yeah. - Okay, I think this is the special that kind of like taught us how to do a special. - Yeah. - Yeah. - It was a good balance between everything. Even though this, looking back, I was like, holy shit, how did we film this? - I don't know. I really don't know. - We got the rental bikes and then just like turned them into filming rigs in like four minutes. I remember like having to stay up all night trying to research how we could get these cameras to stay on. - I was like, did Naby clone himself for this one?

Cause like now we have a whole production team, but this one was just Nabi and Luke. - Yeah, Luke and Nabi were fucking goaded with this. Like I don't know how they pulled it off. - It was like built on like three GoPros on a bike mostly. That's where most of the angles came from, right? And so it's kind of crazy. - Yeah, I just remember this special being so tough, but I remember when we finally finished it and we were chilling at that Okonomiyaki place.

In my head I was like, yeah, I think that was the moment where like the trash test specials really clicked for me. And we're like, yeah, we could do so many more of these. - But this was also a massive credit to Garnt handling the narrative of the story. - Oh, totally. - 'Cause you did a lot of the editing and handling the flow. And I think that,

- Because I remember the first edit of this wasn't nearly as good as what it ended up being and Garnt ended up really carrying this one. - Yeah, totally. - I mean, I would say during the early days of Trash Taste, I definitely took way more of an active involvement in like the narrative and the editing mostly because this was what was going to lay the foundation for our future specials. And it took a lot of work.

I remember I had to, this was like the only one of all our specials that I literally micromanaged. I was like, do this. But I mean, I got like, there was like three pages of notes to move down. I was like, do this, do this, do this, do this.

But yeah, I'm so glad about how it turned out. - And you know what? Still our most viewed special. - Yeah. - I'm not surprised. I mean, I think it holds up really well. - It's got what, 5 million views now or something? - That's ridiculous. I mean, it's really fun. I had a good time doing it. - Yeah. - Definitely. - I mean, this kicked off your cycling obsession.

- Yeah, I think it definitely gave me the itch to want to do it more. 'Cause I think it was so, and I still think like if you come to Japan, the Shin-Namikado should be on your to-do list. It's so good. And if you're going to Hiroshima anyway. - You don't have to do the whole route like we did. - Yeah, you can just get an e-bike. - Oh yeah, you can. - I feel like the, and again, like if you start early, even on a normal bike, if you're an unexperienced cyclist, it's super easy to do. And there's so many, and since we went,

they've added so much stuff. - Oh really? - Like they've added way more cafes, they've added way more businesses along the road. So like now you're kind of sport for choice in terms of like cafes, stopping in the all along the beautiful coast. So it's like, I think it's a must do and I'm glad we did this 'cause I think it's just a really fun special. - Yeah, absolutely. - And it turned out really, really, really well and captured the vibe. And I love the scene when we're trying on the clothes in the room. - Oh yeah, we look like the sperm man. - It's so funny.

'Cause just half of the shit just didn't fit. - Yeah. - Yeah. I think what was perfect about this special, which just happened organically on the day was just, we all had our own storylines, which is completely conflicted with each other. - We're just fucking with each other.

- Yeah. - So good. Well, congratulations to the cycling special. Hopefully we'll be able to recreate another banger like this and a whole lot more. - Yes. - But we are finally at the end of the awards for this year. And to top it all off, we're gonna do something very difficult. We are going to decide the best trash taste special of all time. - No, trash taste episode.

- Episode, what did I say? - You said special. - My bad, episode of all time. - In my head before I see the nominees, I can't even think of one. - Yeah. - No, I can't even think of one. - Maybe there's a couple I have soft spots for, but to sit there and be like, this is the best one.

- Yeah. - That's tough. - It is tough. Well, let's see what the nominations are. - Let's see what the nominations are. - We have the first hentai episode. We have the first anime figure special. - No, no, no, that's the third. - Oh, the second one. - The second one. - That's the second one. No, no, no, because this was the anime figure special that we did to put all this shit up. - Oh, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, 'cause it was when we just moved into this studio. We have the first Felix episode. We have the first Kaho episode. We have the Niall Redd episode.

Yeah. We have the first Chris episode. We have the first Pete episode. And we have college horror stories. Right.

- Why is that one in particular a wonder? - I remember that episode, I liked that one quite a lot. That was a good one. That was when we had like a trove of stories still to tell. And now obviously we're five years in and I've kind of sold it all my life. - Our lore is, we don't have much lore left. - It is interesting. - We have to actively make lore now. - Yeah, it is interesting. Like when I look back and people are like, man, the first episode is so good. And it's like, well, yeah, it's because I hadn't fucking said anything. - Yeah, exactly.

It was so easy to talk for three hours about random shit. Yeah, we never shared any of these stories on our own individual stuff. I think the challenge of a podcast comes after that, when you have to actively put in a lot more effort to figure out what you want to talk about. But obviously the first guest episodes as well are also great because it's the first time we get to get a lot of their stories as well. Do you have a personal favorite out of this list? I had fun on every single one of them. Yeah, they're all very fun. I think I have more of a soft spot for the...

- Episodes without guests as well. So I look back more fondly on those ones because I mean, the guest episodes are great for different reasons, if you like. But man, I mean, they're all deserving. - Totally. - All deserving of a nomination, but only one can be the winner of the best

- Trash taste episode of all time. - It is funny to think that like, sorry, just interrupt. It would be funny if we're like episode four and then that's when we peaked. And then we were like, we just kept going.

- Yeah, I hope it's not the Chris episode. - Well, Kylo's episode four. - No, I think she was episode 11. - No, she's four. - Go back? - No, she's episode 11. - Oh, right, right, right, sorry. - Chris is the earliest one. - Five episodes in and we fucking peaked.

- Yeah, please let it be like the newest one. - All right. - Who's gonna take home the coveted Trash Taste Award or a trophy? - And the winner of the best, the best, the best Trash Taste episode of all time is The Dark Side of Teaching in Japan featuring Premier Two. - I mean, it was a very good episode.

- Very well deserved. - Congratulations, Pete. Pete wins once again. - Well, shit, now we gotta send Pete this trophy. So, Pete, wow. - No, no, no, we're keeping it. - Oh, we're keeping it? - I'm not giving that to Pete. Are you kidding me? - Pete, next time you come and do an episode with us, you can take a photo of this knowing that this is technically yours, but we're keeping it. - It's staying on the set. Pete, you're not having the fucking statue, okay?

- He won by 26%. - I'm not surprised to be honest. - Second place was the first hentai episode. I mean, yeah, that really kicked off. - Makes sense. - Oh, sorry, no, it's the, oh, wait, which one was it? Oh yeah, no, it was hentai episode and then the anime figure special, the second anime figure special and then the Nile Red episode. - Nile Red episode was amazing as well. Obviously the first Pete episode was amazing, his stories.

- It was so fun. - Goddamn Pete. - And he continues to deliver. - How many fucking awards do you want from us, Pete? - My God. - Jesus Christ. - I thought he was gonna win less awards this year, not more, and somehow he's swept once again. - Jesus Christ. Well, congratulations, Pete, and congratulations to all the nominees as well.

- Without you guys, Trash Taste would not be here. - Thank you very much for five years of Trash Taste. - Yeah, Jesus Christ. It's insane you guys are still here. - Yeah, we didn't expect to get to five years. We don't know what the plan was. We had no plan.

- I'll be honest. - I don't think there was ever a conversation of how long it would last. - Yeah. - Well, no, because remember we were like, eh, 100,000 subs is the most we'll go. - Well, yeah, Maylene was annoyed that we scammed her. - Yes. - Yes. - Well, she thought we scammed her. We didn't know. I think, honestly, looking back, it was kind of crazy how it, like what happened basically. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Like the fact that it,

it was as big as it was when it came out. It was kind of ridiculous. Yeah, we had no idea it was going to be like this. Even now I look back and I'm like, that was kind of terrifying at the time. Yeah, like looking back, looking at the new podcasts that are coming out these days, it's just like,

"Damn, we launched on this? "How the fuck did we manage to do that?" For an anime podcast as well, for like an anime podcast back then. - Yeah, 'cause especially at the time, I think the only podcasts that were as successful were current political podcasts, which obviously are quite, people obviously wanna stay informed. So it was kind of insane that this little thing that we did where we talk about shit and pooping and stuff.

- Out of nowhere, from the left field. - Kinda out of nowhere, just kinda like blew up. And it was also kind of daunting. I remember like people would like, the first couple of weeks, it was like people would wait to see what we would say. And it felt like-

like there was a lot of pressure on like what we were going to talk about. And I was like, Oh my God. Like I, it was, it was kind of intimidating. And then it obviously, thank God the show is kind of, it's just kind of at a good healthy point right now where we can just rock up and do it. I thought we want, but it's, it's been, it's been really cool seeing the evolution of it and the viewers as well. And we have, I mean, I think we've all changed as people. Oh, totally. I mean,

- I've nearly, I think I've nearly spent half of my adult life on this podcast. - Oh fuck, don't fucking say that. - I'm 28 at five years. - Shit, yeah, you're right. - Longer than five years, right? So I think we're getting, I'm either at that point or I've spent half of my adult life doing this podcast. - Holy fuck.

- That's so scary. - 'Cause I realized like last year I'd spent half of my adult life in Japan. And I was like, that's weird too. That I've spent more time being an adult in this country than in my own. And now I've spent half of my adult life on this fucking podcast. - Yeah, I mean, yeah, half of my twenties is on this podcast. - Yeah, right? - I started when we were, when I was 25, now I'm 30. - That's so crazy. I'm sure there are people who are gonna comment being like, I've been watching "Trash Taste" since middle school. I've got a PhD and four kids and a wife.

That's crazy too. Like the amount of people who have kind of grown up with Trash Taste and had massive life moments in their life. - Totally, yeah.

It's crazy to think, 'cause we also probably do the same where you've probably watched like the show or you watch a thing on YouTube where you've been watching them for so long, you're like, damn, all the things that have changed in my life. But this thing has stayed the same. And this thing's been there. It's like really cool to be a part of that for some people's lives. - Absolutely. I mean, we never really thought too much about like- - There's never been a plan. - Yeah, there's never been a plan. People saw these categories and they said, oh, is trash taste coming to an end? No, trash taste is-

- A part of our lives. I would say it's just a, I'm gonna be real for a second. It's just like a representation of our friendship. And you know, I think we've all gone and done some fucking big things, exciting things. Each of us have gone our own direction in our own like projects and content.

But I think the reason Trash Taste is still, we haven't missed a week is because I fucking, I'm excited to catch up with you boys. - It is always nice to be like, I got some shit to talk about. - Every time we come into the studio or do a recording, it's just like something to get excited about. It's like home. It's like a second home. - I think there was some moments where we had to like actually put a lot more work into keeping it fresh than I think we signed up for. Like, I don't think we,

- I remember I was talking to the yard guys, like there'll come a moment where you have to like work a bit harder than you anticipated to keep it fresh. - Yeah, he can't just rock up and just talk. - 'Cause that's what we did. We just rocked up and it worked for so long. And then we were like, ah shit. I think like we had to focus a lot on and make sure that we were putting a lot of effort in. And I'm glad that we did 'cause it's now become something really,

fun to do. Yeah. And always exciting to, to do the show. Absolutely. Exactly. And change with it. And don't worry guys, Trash Days is not going anywhere. You're going to get another episode next week. Like always. Yep. We, uh, we're not only giving another episode, we are going to be doing a fucking live stream. Yes. I'm very excited about.

I haven't done one of you boys in a very, very long time. Again, 14th of June, Japan time. You'll see the countdown if you go over to our Twitch channel, twitch.tv slash Trash Taste Podcast. Yeah. We'll obviously talk a lot more as well and reflect on a bunch of stuff that's happened in the past five years with guests and all that as well as a bunch of other fun activities and stuff like that. So make sure to come along. And again, also...

Five-year anniversary merch. Get the merch. Get it while you can. Pre-orders are open right now. Links in the description. So they're not going to last forever. Yeah. Like my purple t-shirt. Get it while you can. Oh, yes. Of course. And also, we're also going to be doing a secret little, I guess, return drop of the After Dark Collection and the Hawaii drop stuff as well, which you can see right here on screen. Don't miss out.

- Yeah, you'll get a big discount. We're bringing you back just specially for this five year anniversary. So if you missed out on the first time around, here's your second and last chance. Get it while you can. All of them down in the description below. And of course we can't end off a Trash Taste episode without thanking our fucking lovely patrons. 'Cause these guys are the goats. They helped us out and they continue to help us out.

So thank you to all the patrons and thank you to all the non-patrons as well. You know, regardless of whether you, this is your first Trash Taste episode or you've been here since episode one, like we appreciate the fuck out of you guys and we would not be able to do all this stuff without you guys. So thank you very much. Thank you very much. Yeah. Hell yeah. But hey, after this episode, you can go check out a patron exclusive podcast

content if you are a patron over at patreon.com slash trashtaste. But hey, if you want to check that out and support the show in the process, head on over to patreon.com slash trashtaste. Also follow us on Twitter, send us some memes on the subreddit. If you hate our face, listen to us on Spotify and we will see you guys in year number six of Trash Taste. Jesus Christ. Might be the biggest year yet. Who knows? Who knows? Who knows what's going to come? We'll see you guys next week. Bye.

Bye.

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