We Are The WORST Movie Reviewers | Trash Taste #115
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- You know like every other popular podcast is like Chad's talking about shit and then we're just like fucking losers. We argue about oranges. And then now we have this shit. What is this shit? I don't even know what this card game is. - Put it away, we're not even sponsored by them. - All right, all right, all right. I'll put it away. - Why are you doing free advertisement? - I don't know, someone gave it to us as a free gift. Someone, someone. - No, don't say us, they gave it to you. - Someone like, okay, they gave us.

- Two cards, okay? Someone at a convention lined up, spent all of their time lining up just so they can give us this gift and you're throwing it away? Come on guys, come on. - Yeah, Connor did. Wow, that perfectly landed on the stairs. - I knew this was gonna happen, that's why I threw it. - Nice, nice. - Anyway, how are you guys doing? How are you guys doing? - It's been a long week. - Re-acclimated to Japan yet? - Yeah.

- Yeah, I have. Not to the weather. - What do you mean reacclimate? Define reacclimate. - Redefine that word. - Being able to talk on it. - What do you mean? I had to reacclimate. - I'll say it for you, reacclimate. - Reacclimate. - I had to reacclimate. Fuck. I had to fuck. Fuck.

I think it was leaving Japan that was much harder because I didn't have a bidet. Now I have a bidet. So now it feels like- You have a bidet? That's good. It feels like all the chaos in the world is gone and I've returned to- Finally back to our first world country. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like the little things that sometimes you just like, you build up a habit and then you remember that you move countries and that habit isn't the same everywhere. Like for me, it's gotten, it's weird now after how much we've complained about it. Now coming back to Japan, I'm like, oh, I have to bring a mask everywhere again.

That's something that I've had to reacclimate to being in Japanese culture. - I wish we didn't have to reacclimate to it 'cause Jesus Christ, wearing a mask already sucks for someone who has facial hair and now that plus the 97% humidity, like every time I take my mask off, my face is just wet. Like I have fucking rabies or something. I'm just like salivating. - Well, I think, I don't know who said that. I might've been the government. I coach making shit up. - As you do. - Yeah, you don't have to wear masks outside.

Yeah, yeah. Because it's too damn hot. Technically, yeah. So the Japanese government really... When was that? Like back in like June, I think. Like the start of the rainy season. The Japanese government was like, yeah, so this summer's going to get pretty fucking excruciating. So as long as you're not in a confined space, you can, and we allow...

the Japanese government officially allow it. - We allow it. - We'll allow it for you to take your mask off just so you guys won't have to suffer. And Japanese people are like, "Oh good, permission." But now they're just like- - They don't do it. - Who's the first one to do it? - I do it, but that's 'cause I have facial hair and it makes it like a moist shower. And I'm like, "I'm not fucking doing this." - But now it's like, even though the Japanese government was like, "Don't worry, you guys can take off your mask." They're like, "All right."

- Yeah, yeah. - No one- - You gonna do it? You gonna do it? - No one does it. And everyone has just like, if you have facial hair, you just have fucking swamp chin the entire time, you know? And it was so weird 'cause I remember flying out of Japan. I remember going to the UK and being like, man, it feels naked without my mask on. - Yeah, it feels wrong. - Yeah, yeah, it did, it did.

- After two years of COVID, it actually just felt like you had nothing on. - Yeah. - 'Cause it just felt so uncomfortable. - It's like I'm wearing nothing at all. - It's like wearing nothing at all. But like after about like, I think it was like two weeks or something, I was like, oh, this is,

- This is I can breathe. - This is what life used to be like. - I forgot this feeling of just being able to breathe and coming back to Japan and even now just like finding out that the government allows people to not wear masks, no one has the balls to not do it anymore. - Or even like Uber Eats drivers wearing like five layers for some reason, they're still wearing masks while they're cycling.

I saw a dude, giant Asuka Breed's backpack, comically large, don't know what people were ordering, massive amount. And then he was wearing a full on jeans, a t-shirt and then a coat over it while delivering with a mask on. And I was like, what the fuck is happening? - I don't understand how people survive the winter here. If you have to fucking double up in this heat, what do you like below 10 degrees Celsius? - In the summer?

- No, no, like how do you survive the winter? It's doubling up in the summer. - Yeah, the shoes were on the Goku drip jacket. Like unironically, on the body. - Yeah, yeah, I see everyone. Like I think, I feel really weird because I'm the only one in my fucking train station wearing shorts.

- Yeah. - Yeah. - And I'm like, am I the slut for showing my knees? - They just prioritize drip over everything. - Yeah. - They're like that. - But it's not even drip 'cause everyone dresses the same. - That's how drip mindset is. - Yeah. - Drip is being the same as everyone else. - Yeah, true, true. - But because I don't think they figured out how to wear shorts because

because I think like wearing shorts to them is like anti-drip and you can't have anti-drip on. You need to have like the base level of drip on. - That's you that you do not see people wearing shorts. - Yeah. - It's so rare. - And I feel really weird for being the only one wearing shorts. And I'm just like, but I physically can't, I don't know.

I don't know, maybe. Are they afraid of shin hair or something? Like what? - They'll see your slutty ankles. - Yeah, right? Like sorry I have some slutty knees. - Too much skin, too much skin. Except for school girls in the winter where it could be like minus 20 and they somehow just wear short skirts without any like stockings or leggings or anything like that. - Yeah, exactly. I don't get it. - There are two types of people.

- There are two types of drip. - Is it drip to wear short things in the winter? Is that how it works? - You can never look like amazing unless you're like a Calvin Klein model wearing shorts. You just look like you're scuffed, I think.

- I think there's no way of looking good in shorts if your body is a normal body. - That's true. - You look less attractive than wearing pants. It's a fact. - Yeah, I agree. It's also that you can look good in shorts, but it's only one outfit. And you have to somehow stretch this one outfit for the entire season of summer.

- I just thought about the guy who did the thingy pose. You know how to do it, Geoff. - Yeah, you know how to do it. - He's got drip. - He's got drip. - It can work. - He's got the right shirt on. You need a nice button down to compliment the shorts, but I just don't. - That's why I'm always wearing button downs, dude. Like, look, I am a man of drip myself, but sometimes, you know what? If I have to prioritize between drip and my balls being as hot as an active volcano, then I'm gonna prioritize

prioritize the shorts. I'm going to prioritize comfort. Because for me, I try to, you know, keep aware about what I wear most of the time. So I look decent. But for some reason, when I wear shorts, all of that goes out the window. I'm like, I don't care how I look. I'm looking for like some nice breeze where I need fucking breeze on my legs. I don't care how I look. I probably look like a fucking clown. I don't know why. Yeah, I'm wearing

- Joey's the only one wearing shorts. - I'm jean gang right now. - I don't know how the fuck you guys are wearing jeans. - It's not that hot today. - Well, okay, here's the strat, right? So when I go outside, I go outside for one second, get inside to get transport, to then come here, and then I'm outside for one more second, then I'm back inside with AC. - Yeah, that's probably. - Yeah, it's like a- - Yeah, it is.

- Yeah, it's like a Navy SEALs operation. If I know exactly where I'm going, I know where all like, I know where the cool spots are. I know what I know. I try to minimize the amount of time in the direct sunlight and direct heat as much as possible. It's like going from one air conditioned spot to the other.

- True. But it's like, yeah, no, but you are right about the whole thing of like, unless you're a fucking supermodel, no one looks good in shorts because I don't know why for some reason- - Like you just look ugly. - Every time I wear shorts, I feel like a 14 year old child. I don't understand why it is. It's like, you know, even if I might be wearing like a really nice shirt and it's like, you know, my hair's nice today or whatever. And I feel like I'm looking good. The moment I look anywhere below and I just see my bare knees, I'm just like, why do I look like a child?

And I hate it because I love shorts. They're so comfortable. - They are. I'm like, why are my legs so fucking ugly? You know, like why are my bare legs so ugly? Why like- - It is- - I was like, damn, did I have this much hair on my shins? - Like by default, legs are the ugliest part of the male body. Unless you do work out like a shit ton. - Yeah. - Like they just look like a skeletal or like chubby. It's just like, it just looks weird.

- I don't know. - 'Cause another thing you have to be aware of is like the length of your sock as well. 'Cause there's nothing that looks more awkward than someone wearing really short shorts and then they just forgot that they had really long socks on. So it just looks unnatural, right? - That's where the struggle comes in because I've replaced almost all my socks with the Family Mart long socks.

- So like I either have to like push the long socks down towards my ankle. - You can do that. - Yeah, or I just have to borrow Aki's like short socks, which I'm currently doing right now. - Yeah, and also the type of shoes. - They're not too small. - No, no, they fit. - Oh, they do look quite girly.

- Because they are, they go to box. - Yeah, they're worse. - I should honestly replace all my, I've got a problem now where I've slowly replaced socks and boxes over the course of like two, three years. So now I've just got a bunch of mismatching boxes and socks where like- - Mismatching boxes? - Mismatching boxes? - How do you mismatch boxes? - Well, if you're in an ideal world, every single pair of boxes I own would look the same.

- Oh, I've never got to that point. - No, I've never gotten to that point. - That's what I would want. - What? - Because, right? - Why does it matter what your boxes look like? - This is literally fucking American psycho shit. You know, you like, you open the drawer, all the socks look the same, all the boxes look the same. - I want that, I want that. - You open the closet. - Just another Thursday. - Okay, so let me explain. So right now, I'm sure you experienced this, right? I have like, I wanna say four different types of boxes. - Okay. - Right? So this is just, I picked them up or maybe I bought another pair, but it was different.

- And like, in my head, I have like a soft ranking of like which ones are the most comfortable and which one I'll go for. You know what I mean? - Okay. - Do you have this where you like, you know which pair of boxers you'd like to wear the most? - No. - Surely there's gonna be like- - No, because in my head, if they're not comfortable, then I'm just gonna throw them out. - No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not saying, okay, maybe one of the pairs are not that comfortable. I should throw them out. But the other three are all comfortable, but certain ones are more.

more comfortable, more luxurious maybe. Well, yeah, maybe because they're newer. And then the newer ones are more comfortable. So it comes in terms of the time you've spent using the boxes. I have a pair of boxes that I got from one of our sponsors ages ago and they're by far my favorite ones. And I only have two of them because we got them for free and I don't want to buy any more because I'd rather just replace them. But they're really nice. You know the ones from there. They're really nice and I'm like, ah,

I like these a lot and these ones are great. And they like, when I'm sweaty, I'm doing sports or something, they're good as well. And they wash really easily. And I've washed them like a billion times and they're great. So I want to wear those ones, but then I'm like, man, should I just get rid of all of them?

but that feels so wasteful, but I want to get them all uniform. And it's even worse with socks, bro. My socks game is wilding. I have like eight different types of fucking socks and they're all different textures and thickness and it is a nightmare. - But you need that depending on the environment, the weather. - No, I want uniform. - See, that's why I did the big brain move. I replaced all my socks with family socks

now you won't know if they mismatched them all at the same. - The only other socks that I want are like, let's say I'm going snowboarding or skiing. I have a pair, but they're not in, they don't get to mix with the daily socks. The daily socks are in their own drawer and it's a fucking mess. I've got like literally eight different fucking textures going on. Three of the textures I'm not a big fan of. I should just purge it all. I should get rid of them all and just get- - Okay, at which point do you look at a pair of boxers and you go, I think it's time to throw these out?

- Because some people will be like, oh, if there's like a hole in it or like some people will be like, oh, you know, the hole's only small and you know, it's not like- - If there's a hole in there, you better get fucking rid of it, guy. That's a bit too far. - Because I used to be like the guy where it's like, if the hole is like small enough where it's, you know, not gonna get in the way of being like uncomfortable, then it's like, that's maybe got a couple more months in it. So like, you know, I didn't wanna be wasteful about it.

I got out of the shower and I was like rummaging through my boxes and I picked one up. It looked fine on the front and then I flipped it around and right on the ass, there was just this giant hole. Like a perfectly round hole and I was like, damn, my...

I must have worn this on like curry night or something. - How do you even have that? - It was like perfectly where the asshole would be. It was just like a perfectly round hole. - Like how did that happen? - That was a fucking banger far. - Damn you fucking let it rip, man. - What is it, Jojo Friday?

The decibels on that font of us just ripped right through the fabric. Boom! I thought that was socks as well, where you put your foot in, and then you're like, you put your foot in the sock, and as you're about to get to the end, you're like, oh,

my foot is out of the socket. - Yeah. - You're like, uh-oh. - Like my big toe is all the way out. - Yeah. - For me, my boxers are actually the biggest indicator of when I should do laundry, right? Because it's not when I run out of boxes. - What do you mean? Like, oh, this one's got a giant shit stain on it. - Okay, because like we said, we have a tier list of boxers, the ones that you prefer. - You have one a day, right? - Huh? - One a day, right? - Yeah, I do one a day, right? - One a day? - Yeah, of course. - Yeah, of course. - We all do one a day. - I'm not an animal. - I've met people who do,

- I'd say a little too much. - I'm not discussing, I have standards. We have hygiene standards here. But so it goes in order of newest to oldest, right? The ones I prefer wearing. So obviously the newest ones are going to be the most comfortable. - And you buy the same pair of boxers every time. - Kind, I mean, it's all the same. - See now it's just, it's already anarchy.

- It's like when you buy like the Uniqlo or the H&M branded boxes, they're all the fucking same. They're all the same standards. I haven't gone to like the higher fucking tier, S tier fucking Calvin Klein. - I don't know what kind of boxes you're wearing. - I literally like just 'cause they're just super comfortable. Okay, you guys don't understand. I have a fucking massive ass and like the only things that can fit comfortably are like Calvin Klein.

Yo, that dummy thick. It's like, the ones in Japan are like literally- That's like the best promotion for Calvin Klein. Bro, the ones in Japan- Yo, dummy thick will fit in. Yo, I'm trying to put on these boxes, but my ass is too dummy thick. Laugh it up, okay? Laugh it up. The clap in my ass cheeks. Rip the whole thing.

Rip the hole in my box. The Calvin Klein's stop it from clapping. They keep them in place without chafing the fuck out of me because Japanese boxes are made for like, I swear, 2D people. Literally. And it's like, I put these things on and it's like my balls cannot breathe immediately.

- No, so like, I mean, I don't have that issue. I have the issue of, I have the issue of, it goes in three tiers. It goes in high tier, mid tier, low tier. High tiers are the new boxers. They're like nice and crisp and nice and clean. They've only had a few washes. It feels good. It feels like you're,

Feels like your balls are like nice, you know, they're nice and cup. They're like stable. And then you got like the mid tier boxes. These are like a few months old. The fabric's starting to wear a bit and you're like, okay, I can get away with wearing these. It's not the, it's not the best boxer feel, but I can make do. And then when I know I need to do my washing is when I get to the fucking low tier boxes,

The ones I technically should really think about throwing out, you know, like the elasticity is just like kind of losing its grip. You know, it's kind of- It's like hanging halfway down your ass. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. It's kind of hanging off and you're like, I should probably throw these away. But if I did, I would get to a point where I would get to a day where I had no boxes to wear. So that's how, when I get to my low tier boxes, that's how, that's when I, that's when I know I need to do the washing. Wait, how many boxes do you own?

- Like roughly, like just enough to last you a week or what? - Like 12 maybe? - Yeah, yeah, 'cause I was about to say like, I have enough to last me like at least two weeks. - Maybe like a week and a half.

- It depends. I think because we've been traveling so often now, sometimes I just misplace them. I can last about a week and a half, but I get to my low tiers after a week. And that's how I know. That's how I know. Because if I didn't have my low tiers, I just get to a week and I'm like, fuck, I'm gonna be disgusting now. - Why would you not just replace your low tier stuff with just some brand new pair of boxers?

- I don't know, sometimes it's just routine. Like for me, I subconsciously know I need to do the washing and it actually gives me a reason to do the washing 'cause I don't wanna wear my low tier boxes. But if I just had high tier boxes, I'd be like, fuck, well, I just forget to do the washing 'cause you know, you can get away with wearing a t-shirt again a day or two, you know, you can get away with wearing trousers. You can't get away with wearing the same boxes every day, you know. - How often do you do the washing? - Once a week. - Yeah, once a week.

- Once or twice a week for me. - He's lazy. - I hate doing washing. - Really? - So I will do anything I can to delay doing the washing. - That's my favorite part. - Garnt's very responsible, but also Garnt just doesn't do chores. Like you can tell. - Yeah. - Garnt is always late to stuff and he doesn't do his chores.

- I hate doing, who likes doing chores? - I like doing laundry. - Why do you like doing laundry? - I like doing laundry. - It's when you get that crisp, fresh laundry. It's pretty fun to do. - When you pull it out of the washing machine and it's like warm and fresh. - Yeah, it smells good. - And then you fold it up and everything. - To me, I have a routine that I like doing every day. And if there's something that I need to do that breaks that routine, which is normally chores, I hate it. - You're saying I'm the one who's like American psycho.

- Literally just described America. - Yes. - There's a routine I follow every day. - Every day. - Every day. - Well, between the both of us, Connor, we can cosplay Christian Bale together. - Okay, carry on. I just had to call you out on that. - Yeah, yeah, because to me, when I'm doing chores, the only thing that's going through my mind is fuck. Can I- - Fuck. - 'Cause fuck.

- Can I get this over with as fast as possible so I can go back to doing my normal shit? And it's just, to me, I hate doing chores is because it gets me away from what I actually want to be doing, which is what I, you know. - But what if, for example, right? Like we don't live in a perfect world where everything you do is something that, or everything you have to do is something that you want to do, right? Sometimes, you know, you run into those things where you're just like,

I know I need to do this, but right now I'm just not, I'm not really in the mood for it. I know I have to do it eventually, but right now, you know what? I don't really like it. I'll distract myself. And it's times like that for me personally, where I'm like, I can go do the washing.

- Yeah, I do. - Because there are some instances where I was like, I would rather do the washing right now than do this thing that I have to do. - So you're just procrastinating. - That's exactly what it is. - That's successful procrastination. - Successful procrastination because it's I'm replacing the thing that I have to do with something I also have to do anyway, but I enjoy it more than what I currently have to do. - That's successful procrastination. - You are fighting the evil with the evil is what you're saying. - I am. I am fighting a greater evil with a lesser evil.

- To me, if I'm going to do chores, there needs to be an indicator. There needs to be a line for me to be like, okay, Garnt, you need to drop what you're doing and do the chores. Otherwise I'm not gonna do it, unfortunately. - But where does that line lie for you? - The Garnt is- - It's the low tier boxes, bro. It's the low tier boxes, okay? - The line for you is all of my pants smell like shit. - Yes, that is the line for me.

So do you do the laundry then out of you in Sydney or is it? Well, mostly it's Sydney. But when I'm with, when I'm by myself, which, you know, now that we've been traveling so often, I've had to do laundry more often than before. Before I was living with Sydney, I had the same system in place because Sydney, Sydney likes doing laundry. I much prefer hoovering up. See, I hate hoovering up.

I hate vacuuming. - Hoovering up, I don't enjoy it. - That's why I bought a Roomba. - I don't enjoy it, but it's way more satisfying because you get that- - When you get that line and you see the crumbs all gone, you're like, damn.

- How dirty does your house get? - Bro, I eat a lot of food. - Bro, sometimes the dust builds up, especially on tiled floors, 'cause my house is tiled floors. - Yeah, tiles shows the dirt. - Yeah, you can really, really fucking see all the dust and all the little things that build up. And it's just instant satisfaction.

Laundry, you have to fucking wait. You have to put all this shit in the laundry. You have to wait for it to dry. And then it gets crisp and everything like that. With vacuuming, it's just like, ooh, this is just instantly satisfying. - Well, isn't your laundry machine next to your shower or bath? - Yes. - Well, then when it's laundry day, when I'm about to go in the bath,

It's like full or whatever. I just take off my clothes, put them in the thing, press laundry. And then by the time I'm out of the bathtub, it's done. - No, because one, I don't take baths, I take showers. Yes, yes, I know, I know. But the reason I hate laundry is not putting it in. It's because I always fucking forget to take it out.

- Yeah, ADHD problems, right? I always put it in and I'm like, I'm gonna come back in an hour. Come back eight hours later, I've got to do the laundry again 'cause all these clothes smell. And then repeat that cycle basically. - I guess I'm lucky that I'm literally like two feet away from my thing so that when I'm working, I hear,

- Yeah. - Then I'm like, "Oh, I gotta go do it." - Also my laundry machine, it washes and then dries automatically. - I'm not that privileged. - Yeah, see, because I had the same problem with my old washing machine where it's like, I would throw it in and then I'd be like, "I'll come back an hour later." And then it'd be like the end of the day and I'm like, "Oh good, I have to do this again." - I hate how dryers make your clothes feel though.

- Yeah, I don't like using the dryer at all. - Really? - Because it just makes it all crinkly. - I pull out my t-shirt and it turns into like a fucking tissue. - Yeah. - Like a cum tissue. It's like I could snap it in half.

- Well, that's why you gotta use like fabric softeners. - Yeah. - And then I also like ironing as well. So I usually do it afterwards. - What? I was going to say, I was literally about to say on the chore tier list, I thought we would all agree that ironing is like fucking down there. That's like Z tier. - No, I like ironing. - Are you fucking shitting me? - Sometimes I wish I was like a box just so I could fucking instantly like

I get all the creases out of my clothes. - Oh, there is though. Have you seen those things? - What? - I think it's like Panasonic or like Fujitsu or something. They've made these like- - Why do we have so much dust on the set? Have you noticed that? Why do we have so much dust? Where's it coming from? - Someone needs to hoover up.

- I think it's like Fujitsu or Panasonic now have these like, there's like these like electric cabinets where you can hang up your things and then you press a button and then it steam lines it for you. - God, I need that. - No, it looks like a fucking Iron Maiden.

- Yeah. - Oh, does it actually? - Yeah, look at it. Look at Google. - Yeah. - What is it called? - I forgot what they're called. - Ironing shelf or something? - Ironing cabinet or something. - Wardrobe? - Yeah. - Can you look it up as well? - Ironing machine. - It looks like if you try to rebrand the Iron Maiden into like something- - It looks like a tiny sauna. Like a tiny one room sauna, but you hang up your clothes in it. - Oh yeah, the saunas where you can like put your body in it. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. Stuff like that. And it's like, I legitimately thought about that. - Is it this thing at top?

It's something like that. But it's like a full on like... Is it loud? My height. Is it loud? I don't know. I've only ever seen it installed. You're gonna get it, dude. Yeah. No, because...

- Like I only iron if I need to iron. Like t-shirts, you don't need to fucking iron t-shirts. - No, no, no, no, no. - But you like, I have, you know, when you want to wear like a nice looking shirt or something, that's when you need to iron it because that's when the creases really, really show. I fucking hate it. I always iron my shirts just before I go out. - Oh yeah. - Well, you know the Japanese business suits that they make a lot of like non iron ones.

- What do you mean? - The ones you don't need to iron. - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. - The non-crease. - There's still creases on them. - Minimal. - I've had them. I've had them. I don't know. When I'm wearing a suit, you're making a commitment wearing a suit shirt. It needs to look good. - How often are you wearing suit shirts? - Not often, which is why I don't iron often. - All right, all right.

- Yeah, I don't know. What do you like about ironing? I think it's the worst one. - It's pretty bad. - I like ironing because it's like, I can just like kind of chill and like not think while I'm doing it. Like, you know, there's like a lot of people who like, you know, do the dishes while they watch TV and stuff like that. Or, you know, so like to me,

- Yeah, I don't have to do it 'cause I have a dishwasher, but like for me that's what I'm saying. - Jerry's like, "Other people, but not me." - Yeah, other people, not me. I used to have to do that in my old place when I didn't have a dishwasher, but like for me now that's been replaced with like ironing where it's just like, I don't have to think about it. And also, you know, it's like I get to make the clothes I like wearing look better than before. So it's like, I don't know.

I never used to like ironing until recently, I think. - Right. - Because now I just appreciate- - You're speed running, speed running middle age. - I am. - Yeah. - Because I think it's like now I appreciate when my clothes look good. - Yeah, 'cause I remember when I was a kid, you know, always hated doing the chores. - Yeah. - And my parents were like, "You'll get to an age where you appreciate it. You'll get to an age." - So I haven't got that.

- At first, you know, at first they were telling me stories. Oh, you know, when your cousin went to university, that's when he started enjoying cleaning. That's when he became a clean freak because he lived with a bunch of university students that made him really want to clean. And they were waiting, went through the university stage,

- I was like, don't worry, when you get a job and you live by yourself, that's when you appreciate it. 'Cause then you have to do it. Live by myself, got a job, didn't fucking do it. And they were like, well. - Was your house just like a mess? Was your house just like the worst place on earth? - It wasn't like, it wasn't the worst place on earth. It was just, I never enjoyed doing it. So I would only do it if- - Right, right. - Yeah. - Oh, so they said you would enjoy it? - They said I would appreciate it and start enjoying it. - What does appreciate mean?

Like you're throwing your clothes into the washing machine, just standing there being like, "Damn." - Isn't it like, I appreciate that they did it or? - I think they thought my quality standards would be a lot higher than what they are. They thought that I would want to iron my shirts every week and want to do the washing and clean up every week. And I'm like, I'll do it when I have like, with all my chores, I have a certain threshold where I need to do it, otherwise it actually looks like a fucking dump.

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Whatever. If you like chores, whatever. I don't give a fuck. The one thing that pisses me off is these people who act like not using a dishwasher and cleaning the plates makes you some kind of like God-tier Chad. Like, have you seen this online? No. People who are like, bro, I use a dishwasher. Cringe, dude. Clean it by hand. It gets it out better. Or like parents and stuff who are like, using the dishwasher? Really? It's like...

- What do you mean? - Like that's literally what the dishwasher was invented for. - The dishwasher makes so much sense and it uses like one 10th the amount of fucking water. Why are you still pretending like getting in there and wasting time, wasting all this fucking water makes you some kind of fucking God tier chat or something. - But like no one says the same argument about like cars.

- It's like, bro, you drive a car, cringe. - Or like laundry, right? - Just ride a bicycle. - No, nobody's like, bro, you don't wash your laundry, you'll close my hand, bro. Get the fuck out of here, bro, cringe. You just doesn't do it right. Just doesn't do it the same way. It's like, bro, what the fuck? - Yeah, doing it with my hand really gets the fucking shit out of it, yeah. - I mean, I get it. Back in the day, bro, like dishwashers, they take a lot of energy, man. And when you're trying to save costs and energy bills, you better be washing it by hand. - Yeah, but you don't do that with clothes. - You're wasting it on water. You're wasting it on water. - I believe like the,

- I don't know if this is just like my mom and dad brainwashed me, but apparently it's more cost-effective to wash my hands. If not, why would everyone not get a dishwasher then? - Well, 'cause the dishwasher machine itself is quite expensive. But if you have it, not using it as a waste- - Also, not every kitchen has enough space for a dishwasher.

- Yeah, true. - Like a really small dish. - I'm pretty sure if you own a dishwasher, there's no benefit except like maybe you have like a giant pot that cannot be cleaned in the dishwasher properly. That makes sense. There's an argument for that. But like acting like it can't clean your plate, right? Are you kidding me? Like fuck off.

- That's literally what it was invented for. - And it cleans plates arguably the best out of any other type of thing that you put in the dishwasher. I don't know. People get so fucking, I see so many people online being like, "Yeah man, just dishwasher man, "it just doesn't do it for me." - It's like, what do you mean? What do you mean it doesn't do it for you? Get another dishwasher. Maybe they just enjoy doing the dishes. - I can understand if you can't afford a dishwasher or it's too much or it doesn't fit. Those are all valid reasons to not do it. But when you own one and you're like, "No, no, no, no, no.

To me, dishwashers has always been the machine that separates, I guess, the more well-off to the people who... How can I word this?

- The dishwasher has always been like the big separator between let's say the middle class and the working class. Can I say that? - In which countries, globally or? - I don't know, it's always been like that in my mind, but because like, I don't know why. - Definitely in Japan, I would say. - Yeah, because I don't know, like for some reason everyone owns like a washing machine.

Everyone owns a washing machine. That's just standard. But for some reason in my mind, whenever I went to a house and they had a dishwasher, I was like, oh, okay. - In the UK? - Yeah, well, in the UK. I've never had a dishwasher in the UK. - I don't know anyone. - Really? - I don't know. Maybe this is my privilege to share. I don't think I ever went to anyone's house who didn't have a dishwasher. - Yeah, same. - Really? - Yeah, in Australia, I think everyone has a dishwasher. - Am I the weird one?

- Maybe it's 'cause I'm in the countryside and there's just way more room. Like the houses were definitely way bigger where I was from. - I definitely feel that way in Japan. Because it's like, until I went to my friend's place and they had a dishwasher, I just thought the concept of dishwashers didn't exist in Japan. 'Cause every other house I was just like, oh, the kitchen is so small, there is physically not enough space for a dishwasher. - Your kitchen in your house was really fucking small. So that makes sense why you wouldn't have one. - But like even,

even going around friends' places and even going around family's places, nobody, it was rare for anyone I know to have a dishwasher.

- I wonder why, 'cause I'm pretty sure the people in Brighton generally make more money than where I was from. But I think maybe what you get for the houses, like every kitchen I'd ever seen was like decently sized. It was like America sized. But that's because all the houses were fucking much bigger. - Oh no, in America, pretty much every house I've been to is like a dishwasher. - Maybe it's just like kitchen size and you just have, okay, well we have tons of room. 'Cause dishwashers themselves aren't as expensive

- Like aren't that expensive, like compared to like a, but I guess it's not as mandatory as like a fridge and other shit. - Yeah. - I don't know. - Yeah dishwasher is when like you're privileged enough to be able to pay someone to wash your dishes for you, you know? Whereas washing clothing, that's a necessity, you know? No one wants to wash their clothes by hand. That's weird, isn't it? - Could you look up the savings of how much dishwashers help or something? I'm pretty sure you, 'cause you know like the eco mode on dishwashers. I'm pretty sure they can,

like they can use an absurd amount of like, like a crazy little amount of water to clean your dishes. Like a really, really, really small amount. - Yeah. - And it's like amazing, but no one ever does eco because everyone thinks eco, fuck that. I do eco. - Do you? - Yeah. - You're the only person I know who's ever done that. - Yeah. - I'm like full blast on that. - Why would you not use eco? Why wouldn't you? - I didn't even know that wasn't like, I thought it would, I don't want my dishes to be less clean. That's what I thought. - What are you talking?

- It cleans your tissues all the same. - Okay, listen, if I have an appliance, right? - I have some advice, maybe wash it by hand. - Because on the machine, I'm like, it's like, do you want it to clean hard, medium or slowly? And I'm like, - Hard. - Hard? - Yeah.

- Yeah, I got full blast on that bitch. I want that shit to be clean. - Bro, difference in upbringing, man. I'm like, yo, I gotta save every ounce of energy I can. - Don't pretend like you can't fucking afford it. - Okay, I'll be honest. - Some things are just ingrained in my mind, okay? - Wait, where did you learn to use eco then? So you said that it was ingrained in your mind. Where did it get ingrained?

- Restaurant. So the only dishwasher I've ever had is in the restaurant because restaurant business. - Okay, that makes sense. - We need to own one. So obviously you gotta go eco. - Oh yeah, yeah. - If it's in a restaurant setting that makes sense. - No, I had a dishwasher in my place in London and it was the same kind of deal.

But yeah, no, that one didn't have Ico. The one I have now does, I think. I don't know if it's all in kanji. - I don't even think my one has Ico. - Yeah, I just pressed start. - I just pressed start. - 'Cause I open it up, there's like eight different kanjis and I'm like,

- Well, I know when I press start and go, it cleans it. So I'm just not gonna touch it. - Yeah, I just go strong and then start. - Yeah. See, that's me in washing machines. Even if it's in English. I look at all the- - We have some information, sorry. - Okay, Kai, yes. - So if you have a full load, it is more efficient and cost-efficient and energy efficient.

but only if you have a full load. - So if you have a full load, it's more cost and energy efficient. - Yeah, so if it's just like one- - You do not have a full load every time you put it on. - I put far too much in, that's my problem, is that I literally try and Tetris it, and then I'm an idiot 'cause then I pull it out and half the shit isn't fucking clean 'cause I like quadruple stack things. - Oh, 'cause it's like way too close to each other? Yeah. - How big is your dishwasher then? - Tiny.

- Oh, okay. - It's tiny. - Japanese ones are tiny. - I have one that comes out of my thing and it's maybe like a, 'cause the US, the one we had in the UK was fucking stupid. It's pretty normal US size. Massive. I think it's like a half or a third size. - I think it's like about that big. - Yeah, maybe it's a half or a third. - Yeah, about that deep.

If you have a meal, you know, like let's say you, I don't know, you've had like lunch and dinner. Yeah. Four plates, a bunch of side, maybe you had soup with it, the glasses, that'll fill it up. Yeah, because I've run out of plates and cutlery between just the two of us before the dishwasher becomes full. My dishwasher can only hold like, like,

- Oh, okay. - And then it can be held some glasses and then maybe a few other little things. It's not a lot. - Yeah, my dishwasher is massive. - You've got an American sized one. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that's because- - I think I prefer having my size though. - No, I do. I would as well because that would, the dishwasher I have right now, because it's built into my house, it's way too big for just two people. - Okay. - Right? The only time I actually feel we get like,

- Value out of it is when we have like a party or have a gathering where a bunch of people come around. - Mine's pretty perfect. By the time I've got, after a few days, it's pretty full and yeah, easy. I like it 'cause I hated doing dishes in my old place in Japan. Fucking hated it.

- Sucks. - I mean, I hate doing chores. I always hate to do dishes as well. - You like leave them to dry for a little while and then like the water didn't dry properly and it stains the glass. It looks disgusting. It looks like someone sneezed in your glass. And you're like, oh for fucks sake. - I like the residue. - Yeah, for fucks sake. I should have dried it, but I don't wanna use a towel 'cause sometimes the towel leaves like little stains, you know, not stains, but like the marks. - Yeah.

- This wash is great. - Yeah, that's why you gotta like hand dry your glasses if you don't want the stains. - No, I did, I used to, but then maybe the towel would like streak it or something and then you're like, I'm gonna kill myself. - Here's some advice, use your hands. - Okay, okay. - Use your God-given hands. - No, no, that was what it was, was when I was using my hands. - There's no winning. - Your monkey hands. - Enough of my privilege for now, for this part. This first time it's ever happened to me in Duran. - Right.

I had this place next to my house where I used to always go to get coffee and sandwiches, God-tier, like fresh bread. - Is that the one you took me to? - Yeah, maybe. It was amazing. And I went the other day and it was closed during a normal day. I was like, "Oh, that's weird." I went back again the next day, it's closed again. I'm like, "Oh yeah, what's going on here?" I go back like, "Yesterday, it's gone."

- They were building shit in it and I was like, what? - Oh no. - I was like, am I not supporting local business? I've been here so many times. I literally like, I must've given them more money than any other customer potentially. I went here like every fucking day. And I was like, how do I, what do I do now? - Should've brought two sandwiches a day. - I did, I literally did. I bought two every time I went and a coffee.

even though the coffee was shit and overpriced. I bought it from there. - Damn. - You're the only person. - Yeah, you're the only one. - The only one in your neighborhood that appreciates good breads. - I'm like, "Am I the only one keeping this alive? "Do you guys not appreciate sandwiches?" - It's a really nice coffee store, and they talk to me every time I go, but it's really awkward small talk, but I can tell for Japan, it's like super sincere. - Yeah.

this is just a little too like. - You know it's sincere when a random Japanese person is talking to another random person. - Yeah. - And a foreigner on top of that? - Yeah, exactly. - It's like, bruh. - Is it a family owned coffee store? - I don't know. I feel like it is. I've never heard of this being a chain or anything. - Yeah. - And they have, it's nice. They're really cute. They always ask what I'm doing that day and I always answer the same thing. - Yeah. - They ask any day. And then one time I was carrying like some camera gear and they're like, "Oh, you filming today?" I'm like, "Yeah."

And then they were like, "Come buddy." And I'm like, "Thanks man." - That's so cute. - Yeah, it was really cute. They're really nice. They do good coffee. So now I'm gonna have to go there a bunch and buy a little overpriced coffee. - Buy the stock. - It's a little overpriced. - But you get like the good experience. You get the people actually care about their jobs. There's nothing that brings a smile to me more than just seeing someone that just really loves and cares for their job. Even if it's like the small jobs, you know. - I'd rather give them,

pay a little bit extra than Starbucks to say fuck you to Starbucks. But here's the thing, right? Didn't I talk about this on the podcast last time? No, I didn't. I've ranted to someone else. I'm trying to remember who I've ranted to about what. And I've definitely ranted about this. Okay. I don't want to always order shit from Starbucks, right?

But online, in the morning, I might want a coffee and I want food with it. So I want lunch. So I want coffee and a lunch. And like nowhere in Japan does decent coffee and decent lunch. It's like pick your priority. Do you want good coffee? Okay, the lunch is probably going to be really bad or they won't have anything. Do you want good lunch? Okay, they probably don't have coffee. And if they do, it's like just black Americana. And then they give you some like sugar packet and stuff. And it's like, I want...

And usually it's like sour as well. Yeah, this is privilege, by the way. This is privilege to the conversation. But I'm like, Starbucks is like the only place that does it. Yeah. Well, on Uber Eats. So I'm like...

I don't want to buy Starbucks, but they're the only one who does it. If a competitor comes up and it's a smaller person, I swear to God, I'll give you all my money. Just please, someone else. Yeah. Well, I'll tell you the thing that annoys me about ordering stuff from Starbucks here in Japan, especially now after going to America and having the privilege of ordering Starbucks and coffee in America, especially LA, which is, oh my God, the amount of options you get in America just blows Japan out the water, right? Like Japan have like

the bare basic options with all of their coffee, I would expect this like most of the options I don't really give a shit about. But in Japan, the really thing, the big option that really annoys me and that's why the reason I've rarely ordered coffee from Starbucks is because I want a hot coffee. Even if it's like the summer, most of the time I want a hot coffee.

In Starbucks, you can only order one size on Uber Eats. I don't know why that is. - Wait, really? - Yeah, if you try to order hot coffee in Starbucks, like the latte or something, every hot coffee, there's no size option. It's only one size and it's the smallest size. And I'm like,

- It's Japan's small size as well. So it's no way a decent size. - Which is basically an espresso. - Yeah, yeah. But for some reason their iced latte, their iced coffee, it's got all the tall brandy venti size, but the hot coffee has only one size. And I'm like,

Why is that the case? What is going on Starbucks Uber Eats in Japan? And then like the dichotomy of spending a month in fucking LA or whatever, you go on the Uber Eats app and the thing is like a fucking character customization screen. Holy shit, there's every option possible. - Oh yeah, that was dumb.

You just want one coffee and you have nine options. You have to choose each one. You're like, what the fuck? - Yeah, the moment you choose either hot or cold, it opens to another page. And it's like 17 options. I'm just like, I don't know what half of this shit means. You like go in the order screen to get to the order screens. - They're like, what molecular level of milk do you want? Tell us the atomic weight of the milk you want.

It's like, what do you mean? But all Uber Eats customization is shit in Japan. Like if you wanna get like actually stuff like customized, like I think we said before, if you order Subway in Japan, okay, one, you shouldn't be doing that. But if you do, 'cause sometimes you just want a sandwich, you want a sub, right? You can't order toasted online. - Yes. - If you order a Subway sandwich, you cannot get it toasted. You have to go to the store, which to me is like, what is the barrier here?

Like, are you worried that it'll be like soggy when it gets to me? I'm okay to sign up for that risk. Like, I want the cheese melted. Like, I don't care. I'll heat it up myself or some shit. I don't know. But maybe you're the rare breed and most Japanese people are just like, nah. Well, I think because they don't know it's like an option because no one goes to Subway here. Yeah, that's true. Sandwiches are cold. Yeah, I've only seen like one Subway here in Tokyo or something like that. There's not many at all. No, no. It's not like a- Because why would you fucking order food?

- 'Cause it is really bad. - It's not great. - It's really bad. - It's not great. - I will admit, it's not great in America, but it's leagues better than the one here. - Even McDonald's as well. The one thing I want from McDonald's with my fucking meal sometimes is McFlurry. And there's only one McFlurry here. There's only one option McFlurry and it's the Oreo McFlurry. And that's the worst fucking McFlurry

Out of every option you could possibly choose, Japan choose to put the Oreo McFlurry on Uber Eats. - Am I the only one who thinks Oreos taste bad? I just think Oreos don't taste good. I just think the biscuit is shit quality and the stuff is the only thing keeping it together literally and metaphorically. - I mean, it doesn't like make me fucking jizz myself. - I agree with you. It's such a mid cookie. - I think it's below mid. There are mid cookies. Tim Tams are mid. Like fuck off.

- I just think that like the McFlurry- - Oreos are way below that. - Yeah, I think that the best McFlurry is just, just give me the fucking one with the little chocolate, like crushed sprinkles in it. Like, you know where they just get a piece of chocolate and- - I think I've ordered a McFlurry maybe twice in my life.

- I like it in the UK a lot actually. - I have no say on this one. - I think in the UK it goes hard. - Really? - I think so. - Well, the problem with like Oreo McFlurries is that unlike say some other chocolate bits where it's actually like physical, like nice solid bits of chocolate or honey cookies or whatever, the Oreo McFlurry is just like the cookie just turns into fucking powder, right? So the powder just blends in with the ice cream. And I'm like, this is awful because I want like,

- There's no clear distinction between where the ice cream starts and where the cookie starts, you know, because it's just ice cream cookie now at this point. - I think you're expecting a little too much high quality from something from McDonald's. - No, no, no, McFlurry's normally pretty damn good, if it works. - Anything but Oreo McFlurries,

- Fucking slaps. - What are the other, what's your favorite one, man? - I just, I'm basic. I like the dairy milk option. - Yeah, yeah. - Dairy milk. - Yeah, dairy milk. - It's just like bits of dairy milk chocolate. - If not, then crunchy. The crunchy option or the M&M options. Those, all great, all fantastic options. - I had the M&M one out of the two times I ever ordered McFlurry. That was pretty good. - Yeah.

But Oreo McFlurries, why Japan? Why would you choose Oreo? - At least the machine always works here. I've never been to McDonald's that it wasn't working out. - That's true.

- I didn't know. - That's true, that's true. - We got a good, we got a good. - That's the trade off. - Don't put yourself out. - Is it a trade? That's like the monkey poor trade off. Yes, your ice cream machines always work, but you can only order- - Now I get the worst one. - But you can only order Oreo McFlurries. I'm like, this is hell now. This is fucking hell. The ultimate choice. - Span had the McFlurry with the Black Thunder, Black Thunder snacks. Those are really good.

- I see, like, I don't know. Do you like Black Thunder? - I actually really like Black Thunder. - What's Black Thunder again? - Black Thunder is like those Japanese, yeah, like chocolate bars. It's kind of like a crunchy, I guess. - No, it's not. - Is it not? - Let me Google this right now. - It's like you wanted to call me to watch right now. - No, no, 'cause like they have more options in McDonald's itself. I'm talking about Uber Eats. - I don't know if they still do. It was definitely, I don't know.

- It's a chocolate bar. If you come to Japan, you should try it. It's pretty good. And if you go to Hokkaido, they have a white chocolate version. - Yeah, but they don't call it white thunder. They call it white black thunder. - Oh, this. - Oh yeah, they do. - Yeah. - White black thunder. - I'm like, just call it white thunder. - I never understood that.

Oh yeah, this fucking slaps. That's a good chocolate bar. It's pretty good. I don't eat a lot of Japanese chocolate bars because I noticed that in Japan, I feel like...

They just make chocolate bars that taste good and then they worry about what's in it after. 'Cause like every single chocolate bar, you look at the packaging, you're like, "Oh my Jesus Christ." When you read the nutritional information. - Yeah. - Yeah. - It's like, they'll have like 50 grams of sugar or something in it. You're like, "Who the, we complain about Coke cans, Japan's, what?"

- I don't know, it's just me personally. - How often do you eat Black Thunder? - No, I don't. But okay, in my mind, right? I don't care about like a lot of the time if I want to eat fucking chocolate bar, I don't care about the calorie count. But sometimes you're in that mood where I'm like, I want chocolate.

But I also want to not kill myself. So, and is this thing tasting, is this thing going to taste so good that it's worth putting this in my body? Right. So it's kind of like a toss up. Yeah. And a lot of the time in Japan, weirdly, there's just a lot of chocolate bars or snacks that are just absolutely rammed with like carbs and sugars, like way more than normal stuff.

- Oh yeah. - I don't know if you've noticed this. - No. - You should pick them up, have a look and just compare them to some chocolates that we have or other American ones. But they probably put other God knows what chemicals. - I mean, I rarely eat sweets. - Yeah, I just don't fuck with it. - Yeah. - Just give me a fucking sandwich.

- Like if I'm hungry, I'll just eat a sandwich. - No, for some reason, like for me, I rarely eat chocolate bars 'cause if I want something sweet, I want like a nice, like a rich, a premium one, like a rich cake or really nice ice cream or something that's gonna like, you know, fill that desire for me. But that's why, I mean, that's why I rarely eat desserts, I think. 'Cause I rarely get into the mood to eat something sweet. - Well, we had this conversation like a couple weeks ago, but yeah. - What's your favorite chocolate bar?

- Do we have to do like a chocolate bar tea at least? - Okay, I'm gonna be honest, I'm gonna say this right now. I know it's not chocolate, but I like white chocolate the most. And I know it's awful for you as well. It tastes so good though. - Really? - Yeah. - White chocolate is probably my least favorite. I fucking love white chocolate. It's just pure sugar. Like at least chocolate has something in it. White chocolate is just sugar. It's nothing, it's not even chocolate. - I like the cocoa. - I think dark chocolate's my favorite. - I'm gonna go milk chocolate.

- Just to round things off. - Can I have a tea? - Can I have like a hot drink? - No, no, if you want to just have it by itself. - Are you talking about brands or are you just talking about white, dark or milk? - Well, I mean brands or whatever. - Because it's hard to choose a brand because I don't think it's fair to like compare. - Toblerone, yay or nay? - Yay.

- I don't think it's fair to compare say dairy milk to Lindor or Ferrero Rocher. - Oh yeah, of course. - Are we just talking about the bare bones? - It's like comparing five guys to internet. It's just not fair, they're in different vice cabinets.

- We do that. - Why are you? - We did that. - We're guilty of that. - Yeah, we did do that. - To me it's different because that's a meal. Okay, would you say in and out? Oh for fuck sake. - Let's not get into that. - Let's save this for the America tour, okay? Save this for the America tour. I don't really feel like arguing about burgers. I've got chocolate on my mind right now. - Do you still want to continue the chocolate debate? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, Joey asked the question. - I have a loaded topic next after the chocolate. Oh for fuck sake.

- I am not ready. - So we should drag this chocolate conversation as much as possible. - Honestly, one of my favorites is, yeah, I mean, dairy milk. I've grown an appreciation of dairy milk after moving out of England. I think British chocolates are actually really, really fucking good. - When you take one bite of Hershey's, you're like, oh.

- Oh, this is disgusting. - It kind of- - Yeah. - This is horrible. - I don't know why, like Hershey's to me always, it kind of tastes like farts. I don't know why. Like it tastes gassy. - I think it had to do with World War II, right? So I think World War II when, obviously there was where they were rationing everything. I think the UK and some other European countries just decided to just make less chocolate.

because they were like, yeah, we're not gonna make that. And whereas I think America wanted to give a lot of the troops chocolate. I could be wrong. Can you fact check this? Can you double check that? But it's something along those lines where they wanted to keep giving chocolate to people because it's a little good morale booster. So they made chocolate that had a lot less milk and a lot less sugar.

Because it takes a lot of milk and a lot less cocoa. Cocoa? Cocoa. Cacao. And so they ended up making this kind of weird, sugary fucking mess. And then they were making it all throughout the war, Hershey's. So yeah, so people are still eating Hershey's and they make fun of British people for eating war ration-like food. Motherfuckers in America are still eating war rations, dude. And it's like their favorite chocolate bar. It just doesn't taste good. It doesn't taste like chocolate.

And it's so obvious that if you eat any chocolate from Europe and then you go to America and you have American chocolate, you're like, this isn't chocolate. What is this? This is like if an alien saw chocolate, tasted it and was like, I will replicate this and formulate. - Well, I think even Asian chocolates aren't that good. Like the bare bones basic chocolate bars. You can't get good chocolate here. But if you're just talking about here's this,

some of the cheapest options you can fucking get. A lot of Asian chocolates are just missing that like the weight, the heaviness that you get in European chocolates I feel. Like a Frodo bar is like better than pretty much- - Hold up, Frodo? - Is it Frodo? - Frodo. - Frodo, sorry. - I believe he's from Lord of the Rings. - They might have a hard time getting their name. - A Frodo bar. - I know, I know.

- Hey Fredo, can you make a bar that's just cheaply Frodo from Lord of the Rings and call it a Frodo bar? - I'm more of a Gimli bar myself. I'm more of a Gimli guy. - Can I get the Gandalf bar? - The Gandalf. The Gandalf Crunchwrap Shedring.

- Yeah, like Frodo bars are like better than basically any kind of cheap chocolate you can get in Asia, I think. - Yeah, Frodo's are great. - Yeah, I base that on Japan and Thailand. - I don't really eat chocolate bars. - Yeah, that's the reason I don't get chocolate bars here because there's nothing that really fills that,

like that makes me feel that satisfaction for me. - I think it's just a culture thing, right? Like they just don't have a history and a big culture of making chocolate as long as like say Europe. - Yeah, yeah. - I mean, they obviously made chocolate, but you know. - Yeah. - 'Cause Japan has a lot of its own type of sweets, right? Give us some knowledge. - Yeah, so, - Was that right? - was used for the American soldiers during World War II because it would give them a pep up. - Yeah, yeah. - A boost of energy.

- Cool, so yeah, I was kind of right. - Yeah. - Nice. - Your reference. - I was not wrong. I don't know, okay, I might've been wrong on the makeup of what goes into Hershey's, but I'm pretty sure it's like less chocolate. - Did you learn that from a Johnny Harris video? - No, a Vox video. Vox, thank you, Vox. - All right, what was your fucking preloaded?

- Are we going to go off on chocolate? - Yeah, sure. - All right, okay. Also before we leave the chocolate debate and sweets, Japan's sweets, kind of lame. I'm not gonna lie, just saying. - Yeah. - It depends. - They'll be like, do you want beans?

- That's Japanese sweets. Do you want bean paste? - Is this your first day in Japan? - Do you want beans? - Hey, yo fam, you want beans? - That's what Japan desserts like. They're like, do you want beans? Beans paste?

No, it's like there's more variety than just fucking chocolate. Because I know you, you want one type of dessert and it's like either fucking ice cream or chocolate. Yeah, yeah. You're like anything else, anything else disgusting. I cannot imagine why any- No, no cakes. Cakes are good.

- Who the fuck eats beans for dessert? Ew, disgusting. - Cokes are good. - Connor's like, "I can't imagine why any other culture would want to eat anything else that's sweet other than cake, chocolate and ice cream." Unfathomable. - I think we should start colonizing these places and show them what a real dessert is. - Okay. Completely off topic. While I remembered that I watched it, I watched the newest Thor movie.

- Oh, okay. - 'Cause people love my movie reviews. - Oh God, here we go. - Is this the loaded topic? Is this "Love and Thunder," right? - Yeah. - It was shit. - Yeah. - I've heard it was shit. - It was seriously awful. I never have gone to a Marvel movie before this badly until like, I literally just watched a filler. I just watched filler. - Yeah. - I don't know what the shit they did. And these motherfuckers online will be like, "No, no, you have to watch this 'cause you need to know that Thor,

oh, X happened because this is gonna happen in the next movie. And it's like, bro, this could have been a cliff notes. This did not matter at all. Who cares? Who? The West. Who? Who? Who? It was such a bad movie. I don't think that's a hot take though. I've seen a lot of people talk about the new Thor movie and just say it was-

- Well, not bad, but just very, very mediocre. Kind of wasn't even a Marvel movie. It was like a comedy movie. That's what I heard. - I'm gonna start rating all the movies that we talk about on the show. Four out of 3.5 out of 10. - Oh, that low? - Five would be meh. I actually felt like I wasted my time. And I rarely feel like that about movies.

- Yeah, because you said the multiverse of madness was shit. - Oh, it was like a five. - That was a five? - Five. - I watched it. 'Cause I watched it afterwards and I didn't go to see it in cinemas because of Connor's raging review over it. So I was like, I don't need to watch this in cinemas. And then I watched it when it came out on stream platforms. Thought it was okay. Not as bad as like what you're making out to be. I think...

I think I'm just way more invested in the whole Marvel Cinematic Universe than you are. And I think Marvel has got to a point now where it's just basically a fucking anime at this point. Marvel, the MCU is the Western anime, okay? It's the Western equivalent of anime, right? - It is, yeah. - Yeah, I mean, I don't know. It's just, again, it's so, I don't know, it's so boring now.

After Endgame, I feel like they've just been stumbling again to find something. And they're building up this weird stuff and it just feels like, who cares? I think because they... I think Marvel's going through two problems right now. One is like, Endgame happens and they've

Obviously when you've had 10 years worth of buildup into like one fucking film or two films, obviously you're not gonna be able to follow that up immediately. And the second thing is that there's just too many fucking things right now because I think they've just- - It's like how do you keep up with it? - Yeah, because I think they just announced

all of the films in phase five and the end of phase six as well, which is going to be like the next Avengers, right? The next, the next, the next two Avengers film is going to be all the way in phase six now. And I, I believe there are more films coming out that,

in one year than there is in the entirety of phase one of MCU. And like, how are you meant to fucking keep up with that? You know? Yeah. I mean, it's just a lot. And a lot of the time, I wouldn't mind if I felt like I was getting good movies.

But a lot of them are just kind of like, all right, you're just putting stuff out. Yeah. It's just quantity over quality. Yeah. I don't know. And yeah, and it's like I watched Top Gun, the new one. That was really good. I heard that was really good. I watched it in 4MXD. That shit was so good. Because the chairs were like moving around. And with the jets, it was so good. I mean, it was just a good movie. Like, it was just great. Like, it didn't try to do anything wild. It was just like, let's just tell a story, and it's fun, and it's good.

- And apparently there was like barely any CG in it either. It was like all real fighter jets. - It was like really impressive. All the shots were so good. Eight out of 10. - Eight out of 10? - Honestly, it was fun. If you haven't watched it, I think it's still in Japanese cinemas. You should go watch it. It's really fun. - I had a similar thing with you where I finally watched the new Robert Pattinson Batman movie as well. - I love that movie. - On his Raging Reviews. - I liked it. - I like Robert Pattinson.

- Oh, I do too, but I thought that movie was boring as shit. I thought it was okay. It was okay. - He was just too emo. - I mean, he was. - It was like if Bruce Wayne listened to a little bit too much My Chemical Romance. - I wanted Robin Paterson to be in the movie more

- He had like six lines. - I did too, I did as well. But my God, it was just like every time he went on screen, I could fucking hear Boulevard of Broken Dreams just like in the fucking background, man. - The part that killed me was when he took the mask off and he has eyeliner. I'm like, did you just come back from a concert? - It's to help hide his eyes, okay? The mask isn't really the perfect type of thing. - I could hear "Welcome to the Black Parade" when he took off the mask. I was like, you are so emo, it's just hilarious. - 'Cause it's the color of his skin, right?

Oh my God. I liked it. It was a too long. Yes, it was too long. Yeah. It was far too long. And the thing is, I just didn't think Batman as a character was an interesting character. I liked, I thought he was more interesting in, in, in this movie than he was at Batman begins. Really? I, cause I've really, really liked the Christian Bale Batman. Yeah. But I like him at the dark night. I, the Batman begins. I didn't really, I wasn't really invested in it. I thought, I,

- I did because at least you got to see like a character arc in Batman Begins. It wasn't as interesting as Dark Knight. I actually think he was like Christian Bale was a more interesting character as Batman in Batman Begins versus the Dark Knight where it was mostly about the Joker, right? But in the Batman,

- I thought it started the same way it ended, in my opinion, where it's like Rob Pattinson is sad at the beginning of the movie and he's just even more sad. - Yeah, because he's broken. He's like a fucked up character. 'Cause he's Batman, he's a fucking psychopath. - Yeah, but like- - He's not supposed to be cool, this guy's a freak. - Yeah, but like, I think they made it a little bit too on the nose with this movie. Whereas like, you know, with the Christian Bale ones, it's like, yeah, he's a little bit fucked up, but it's a little more subtle.

I feel. Whereas like this one, especially with the fucking eyeliner, I was just like, all right, I get it. - I liked it. - Batman, big boohoo, saddy. - I really liked the Riddler in the Batman. - Yeah, I thought he was a really good- - I thought he was a really, really good villain. - Yeah. - But I mean, we're comparing it to the Jim Carrey version. - In terms of like Batman villains and just superhero villains. - Right, right. - And in general, I think he was a really, really good villain. I think like,

the Batman was much less of an interesting character versus the Riddler in this film because I didn't really get a reason to really care about Christian sorry not Christian Robert Pattinson's character I didn't really I didn't really have a reason to care about the Batman in this film the last hour was just far too long as

- I think it was a long as well. Like it was just drag. - It was, it was. - I'll admit that. I'm just a simp. - Don't get me wrong, I love Rob Pattinson and like his acting was good, but like he had far too little lines that were even interesting. - I'm hoping that the next one is like, you know, 'cause we have "Batman Begins", I hope it's kind of up the ante a little bit more, hopefully "Dark Knight", but it won't be that good. - 'Cause it felt like with the Batman, it just came in with the assumption that,

like the audience, like, you know Batman, we don't need to explain Batman. You already know his character. - Everyone knows Batman. - Yeah, everyone, but like to me, I still wanna see that character. I still wanna have reason to care about his character. - You wanna see his fucking dad die again?

- I mean, sure. - Oh no, not again. There's so many of them, I hate it. - I did like though the fact that like the Riddler, they just made them out to be like a 4chan. - Yeah, but it's great, that's great. - That's what made it interesting. - That's what made it interesting. - Is that they took an old villain and they made it like they modernized it. They made it relevant, they made it current. Same thing with what they did with the Joker, with that movie, with the recent movie that came out as well. I just thought with the Batman,

Batman was just the most boring character out of everyone in that cast for me. 'Cause he barely had any fucking lines to begin with. - For me, there's a lot of really interesting dynamics in the Batman. Again, it's been like a long time since I watched it. But I remember I really liked the fact that

how he was like, even the police saw him as this kind of weirdo. And they were like, no, no, what are you doing? Get out of here. And then obviously the warden, the warden, warden? Yeah. The warden was helping him. But then everyone else was like- Commissioner. Commissioner, sorry, yeah. Gordon, warden.

Yeah, Gordon was like, you know, the only one helping him. And I thought that was interesting because in real life, why the fuck would this random psychopath in a suit be allowed to like go into the scene of the crime? Yeah. And it's like, it would make sense, right? I liked how it felt a bit more real, a bit more gritty. I liked it. I thought it was good. But yeah, I think- What was your rate out of 10? The Batman? Mm-hmm.

- Oh, 7.5, eight. - And that's the Connor movie reviews everyone. - Monkey reviews, let's go. - I also watched Sonic 2 on the plane. - How was that? - It was exactly the same as Sonic 1 but with knuckles. - And they announced Sonic 3, didn't they? - Yeah. - Which has Shadow. - I enjoyed Sonic 2 way more than I thought I would. - It was fun. - Yeah. - It was a good time.

- I'm okay with this being a series. I think it's just fun enough where I think it's fine. - It's straddled the perfect line between campy and cringe. - There was so much cringe jokes in it though. - There was, but they fucking, they owned it. They owned it. - That's like Sonic's MO though.

- Yeah, yeah, exactly. - It's like, it's not Sonic if it doesn't have Chris Jones. - That's just the Sonic fan base in general, right? They got the essence of Sonic in this film. And so I went into it and I saw like one or two jokes. I'm like, this is gonna be an awful film. But I kept watching. I'm like, this is an awful film, but I'm fucking having a great time. - Idris Elba was really good as well. I liked Idris Elba a lot. - Idris Elba's great. Jim Carrey's fucking great as well. - Jim Carrey's just great. - Jim Carrey's just fucking great. And I think the scene that sold me was

- The dance battle. - I hated that scene. I was like, oh, end! - Wait, what is it? - It's just fucking, they're like fucking Siberia or some shit. - Yeah, they're in Siberia or some shit and they're in this random bar and then they piss off this random fucking Russian guy or some shit and you think a fight's gonna go down. And then like he takes off his shirts and starts dancing. And they have a dance battle.

And I'm like, this is so stupid that it's like just fucking looped around and become amazing. - Right. - Fortnite dancing. - Oh my God. - Yeah, that's the thing. That's the thing. It's straddles the perfect line between cringe and campy. And it's just, it just, it's, it's, it's straddles it so well that it's just entertaining. Like you're not meant to take it seriously. - I'm hoping the next one's good with shadow to be fun. - It is. Did you see? - No, I know it is. Yeah. - Yeah, yeah. - I'm hoping it's gonna be good. - Yeah, yeah.

- Fucking edgelord shadow. - I can't wait to see. - How the fuck is this? - I can't wait to see fucking edgelord shadow. - I can't wait for all the edgy fucking shadow jokes. - Yo, Robert Pattinson, go ahead and reprise his role. - No, yes, actually. Okay, I'm on board now. - I'd be down for that, I'd be down for that. - I'd give the Sonic movie- - If Shadow isn't wearing eyeliner, I'm gonna be solely disappointed. - I will say, I think I had more fun watching the Sonic movie, even though it was shit, than I did watching the last two Marvel movies. So I'll give it a six. - Yeah, I'm not surprised with that.

- Yeah, I mean, Marvel to me, I only like it because I'm invested in what happens. If you're not invested in what happens, you're gonna hate the recent Marvel movies 'cause there's literally like no reason to watch it. - That's why I feel like it's just objectively bad. Like if the only way that you can enjoy Marvel is that you are dedicated to the Marvel universe, then like the movies aren't good. The movie should be able to hold up on its own. - I totally agree with you. Like the most interesting thing for Dr. Strange for me

was seeing his progression as a character and seeing how this affects the wider universe of Marvel. I fully fucking admit that. And I fully fucking admit there's so many moments in Multiverse of Madness that just doesn't work as a standalone movie. Like the moment you talked about where it's just like, oh, look at these characters care about these characters because- - It's just turned into fan service for- - Yeah, it's literally fans. It was like, there was so much fan service in that movie.

I don't feel like Doctor Strange as a character has like in that movie actually gets anything out of it. Like he doesn't change at all.

Like in the first movie, it's great because like he's having to learn it all and he's having to change his like asshole-ish ways. But then he just becomes Benedict Cumberbatch and then he just hasn't changed at all or like progressed in any way. Like at least Thor has changed a shit ton as a character and is somewhat interesting to follow. But like, I just find Doctor Strange really boring to watch because Benedict Cumberbatch has just been playing Sherlock.

but with magic, like the past two movies or three movies, I don't know what the fuck, it's so boring. - Yeah. If there's one thing I do actually recommend, Loki is probably the best thing to come out personally. - I can imagine Loki could be good. - Loki is one of the best.

One, an interesting story. Two, it's kind of self-contained, so it tells a self-contained story. And three, they make Loki's character super, super fucking interesting. Okay. Well, he's always been one of the more interesting characters. Yeah, exactly. He's been one of the more interesting characters, and they gave him such an interesting character arc and character progression as well.

where they didn't exactly change his character at all. They just gave him way more depth. Like highly fucking recommend Loki. It kind of hits all the boxes you want from what Marvel kind of used to be

before end game. It's an interesting story. It really, really affects the wider universe. And it's just, but you can enjoy standalone as well. Fucking amazing. Watch Loki. - I'm recommending movies now. - I watched also on the plane. I watched the big Lebowski. That was good for the first time. - That's a fucking fantastic movie. - First time I ever watched it. - Yeah. - That's amazing movie. - Such a good fun movie. Such a fun movie. - I recently watched a movie. I don't know if it's new at all, but like, Arki recommended it to me. It's called Greenland.

You know this movie? No. Sounds so familiar. The Country? Yeah, like named after the country. But it's basically the most, I would say, out of all of the world is ending apocalyptic movies, it's probably one of the most realistic representations of it. So it's basically just like,

the world, there was this giant meteor or comet or whatever it is that's like flying around the earth and it's about land like little bits of its debris is about to hit the earth, but it's like- - Oh, it's like Gerald Butler? - Yeah, Gerald Butler. - Oh no. - Hell yeah. - Hell yeah. - He just does disaster movies now. - Yeah, he does. - I think it's like his production company. - I think so. - And literally all he makes is disaster movies. - Yeah, but it's him and it's like, you know, like little bits of comets are gonna like hit the earth and then there's one big,

part of the comment where it's like, it's bigger than the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. And you know, the earth has 48 hours left. And it's basically like Gerard Butler plays like this dad who just does everything he can to try and get his family to this safety bunker in the middle of Greenland. Yeah. And it's like, and it,

I personally enjoyed it because it made me super fucking anxious the entire time because like they go through these like really it like I think it perfectly shows what would actually happen especially because it's like basically the US most of the time. What would actually happen if a situation like that

happened in the real world right so it's like you know uh gerard butler's like family gets like selected to like you know go you know because he he's like his uh his character plays like a construction worker or something right so it's like they pick out all the people with like the important occupations that would be you know responsible for rebuilding society once the earth gets destroyed yeah yeah um and then it's like all this like shit about like people being like

desperate to like fucking steal the QR code and stuff like that so that they can get on the plane. And it's like, it's fucking like anxiety driving the entire time. - That sounds pretty interesting. - I like Jared Butler as an actor. I just wish that he did stuff that wasn't- - Stuff that wasn't- - Disaster movies. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I mean, I remember when he was one of the hottest names in Hollywood, you know, for a while. - It was just 300, right? - Yeah, after 300. - Yeah, after 300, yeah. - Like the man crush that everyone had. - No, yeah. - He included.

- How couldn't you? - Abs of steel. - Sexy fucking man. - Yeah. - What was the other apocalypse movie that recently came out? Not recently, but it came out a while ago on Netflix. I'd like Leonardo DiCaprio. - Don't look up. - Don't look up. - I heard that was sucked. - I heard that sucked. - I watched it, yeah. - What was bad about it?

one it was like fucking three hours long and there's just like dumb fucking edits in the movie that are fourth wall breaking they're so frustrating and it's just like it's like political satire of what's happening real like now in the world but I feel like political satire is so like funny and unfunny at the same time and it's just like it's really grating well because I saw the one scene

that came from that show that was spread around recently because it was like so, you talk about political satire, but in that case, it must've been so- It was pretty damn good satire. It was so on the nose. So I believe there's a scene where they try to warn everyone about the incoming asteroid, right? On the news. And the news is just like, we don't do that here. Let's talk about something nice.

We're here for good vibes, right? And then I believe recently in the UK, in the UK, God fucking come on. Come on, guys. Come on. Come on. Guys, we're better than this. But in the UK, there was a recent interview

that was about the impending heat wave that Europe's currently going through. - Yeah, yeah. - Where it is a record breaking heat wave. I believe now the heat waves pass, but UK recorded a new record high for the highest temperature ever recorded in our country. - 40 something. - Which is like 40 or 41 degrees. - Insane. - Yeah, which is insane. For a country without air conditioning and for houses that are built to trap heat, that is,

- That is fucking excruciating. That is dangerous. People will legitimately die from heat stroke and shit from this. This has gone beyond, "Oh, it's a bit hot, isn't it? It's a bit hot." And people will be like, "Oh, back when I'm from, back when I'm from."

It's 5,000 degrees where I'm from. I was born on the surface of the sun. I'll have you know. I hate that shit. I fucking hate that shit. But yeah, so this weather expert was trying to warn the interviewer on the news that, you know, we should prepare for hard times because you shouldn't take care of yourself. People are going to die. Hmm.

from this event. And the newscast literally said, you know, all you weather, all you meteorologists are so, you know, you're so down. Like, why are you such downers all the time, man? It's good weather. How could you complain about a bit of heat, a bit of sunshine? And it was just...

It was so on the nose to the scene that the other film kind of portrayed that. It was kind of like depressingly accurate. Like I said, it was very funny at times and very cringe at times. Like some of the satire was very good and it was tasteful and others were...

- But again, I guess it could be with your political leaning as well. - Yeah. - Like if you're, you know, you might find one. It was trying to make fun of both sides. - Yeah. - But at times just made it look, made it seem like dumb. - Right.

- Right. - And there's this whole like kind of- - There's like a subtle art to doing that kind of stuff. - I don't know. For me it was just- - South Park's like the kind of like king of that, right? - Yeah, like if it's too on the nose, then it's just like, all right, all right, we get it. - I haven't watched South Park of late though. I don't know if it's good. - I don't know if it's good, but back when I used to watch South Park, you know- - It was very funny. - Yeah, they were like kind of like the Kings of being able to make both sides look stupid while also just making a funny show in general as well. - Yeah, I think they've definitely done some episodes that were bad, but-

Oh, yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure it doesn't. Under-titties, under-head. Anyway.

- Going back to "Top Gun" though, I've definitely grown more of an appreciation to any action films with Tom Cruise in them. Just because have you guys been recommended the clips and the shorts that are just basically a bunch of Tom Cruise interviews describing all the stunts that he's done? - No. - Bro, that man, Tom Cruise, as we know, is fucking insane, right? But he's the right kind of insane to make amazing action movies. - Right, right.

Because he is very like old school when it comes to stunts and everything like that. Does he do all of his stunts? Right now he does. I don't know if he does all of them, but a lot of them he does by himself. So one of the craziest stunts, I haven't even seen the movie, but one of the craziest stunts I've heard him talk about recently was in one of the recent Mission Impossible movies. They do like a halo jump.

- What's a halo jump? - It's where you like jump from like the stratosphere, I think. - Yeah, yeah. I believe it's like, can we fact check exactly what a halo jump is? But basically it's a skydive. It's a skydive. - Skydive from space. - It's a skydive from space, right? I don't know if it's from space, but it's either a very low or very high skydive. I'm gonna guess very high, right? - A very low.

in low sky dive would just be a fall. - I meant either a low altitude than usual or a higher altitude than usual. - I think it's higher. - How high is it? - Well, HILA stands for high altitude, low opening. - Okay. - And it's a military parachuting jump. - Right, right.

From the stratosphere, right? I'm pretty sure. Or it's like above the stratosphere or something. Anyway, it's a really high sky. Yeah. So in this movie, because after him, after watching him talk about it, I actually went out and watched the scene in this movie and it's one long shot, right? It's one fucking long shot of them jumping out of the airplane and

And then there's this entire fucking action sequence that happens midair and it's all done like IRL in real life where- - I know what IRL stands for. - Yeah, yeah. Just in case the viewers didn't know. Where one of the guys gets like struck by lightning. That's obviously CG, but obviously he passes out and Tom Cruise has to basically help him fix

- Wait, he gets hit by lightning mid skydive? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - God, how unlucky could you be? - Well, to be fair, they do the halo jump in a thunderstorm. So, you know, it's not like they just jump out of the plane and then God's just like, I'm going to smite this one person. - You made it sound like it was like clear blue skies and it's just like one strikes like pew.

It would be quite unfortunate. Yeah. So yeah, Tom Cruise's character has to help him fix his parachute and fix everything in midair. And then they fucking are able to just land safely, I guess, afterwards. But...

It's all done in one shot. It's one unbroken shot, right? And Tom Cruise was talking about it and they only had one take a day, right? Because it was shot right as the sun was rising. So they had one take a day to do like this three to four minute shot, right? Which was a highly advanced skydiving technique and skydiving sequence where-

- What happens is the first shot is like the camera guy had to literally fly out and Tom Cruise had to fly out.

And he had to catch up to the camera guy to like, I believe a few inches because it needed to be in focus. He needs to catch up to the cameraman and stop midair at the right length for the camera to be in focus before going off past the cameraman. And that just, that's fucking insane. How insane do you have to be to choreograph? I want to see all the outtakes of that. I want to see the outtakes of that as well. I'm just like Tom Cruise just running into the camera guy.

It's my head first. Yeah, it's definitely hearing him talking about it and now watching back to the sequence, it's definitely given me way more of an appreciation to some of the shit that he does on screen in his action movies. Because I haven't seen Top Gun, but I've heard everything was also done with the same kind of mindset where we're not using CG, we're doing as much of this in real life as we possibly can. Yeah, the jet stuff was crazy in that movie.

- What was the action scenes like in that movie? - Oh, like nuts. Like you do, 'cause it's all like real jets, I'm pretty sure. At least for most of it. And yeah, it's just crazy scenes, like really cool, like choreographed scenes between two jets as well. Like, I don't know, it's sick. It's just a great movie. Go watch it, you'll love it. If you have an appreciation for that, you'll like Top Gun. - I mean, I loved the original Top Gun, so. - Yeah. It's not as homoerotic, sadly.

- It's not? - I don't know if I wanna watch it. - Yeah, well, 'cause this one's more of like a, he's like a mentor. - I was ready to take my fucking top tier boxes with me as well and everything just to be an extra comp. - The first one is just about, you know,

- Yeah, him being struggling with his gay identity, which he didn't want to have. - Have you seen that Quentin Tarantino clip? - I love that one. - This is good short. Quentin Tarantino is just fucking talking about how Top Gun is secretly a movie about gay guys or something. - Like someone discovering the homosexual side in Top Gun. - Yeah, isn't it just a movie about boys playing volleyball?

That's all that movie is about, right? It's like, I just want to play volleyball, beach volleyball with the boys. - Yeah, I got to show you this clip after this recording, 'cause it's the most Quentin Tarantino clip you could ever fucking imagine. And just what's funnier is just, you see this clip, you scroll down to the comments and it's just, it's sometimes YouTube comments, like they double the entertainment of a fucking clip. They're like, sir,

- This is a Wendy's. - That's so good. Oh my God. - Well, no, like another film I watched recently, 'cause I don't actually watch many films.

- Everything, everywhere, all at once. - I watched that as well recently. - Fucking incredible film. - Amazing. - Came out at the same time as "Doctor Strange" and it's way better than it. - Yeah, yeah, exactly. - Oh my God, it's such a good movie. - Choose which multiverse fucking, multiversal badness and multiversal goodness. - The main girl is the same actress in "Crushing Tiger", I think. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, Michelle Yeoh. - Michelle Yeoh, yeah. - The movie was amazing. - Yeah, I didn't know she could speak English. - Yeah, me neither. - Oh, she speaks perfect English.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, well now I know, now I know. - 'Cause in "Crashing Tiger" she doesn't, right? - 'Cause she's a really, really famous actress in China. I've only seen her speaking Mandarin or Cantonese. So I didn't know if she could speak English or not. And yeah, absolutely. - I didn't realize how much of that film is spoken in Chinese. - I thought it was, I fucking loved it. - Yeah, no, it was really, really cool. - Yeah, because there are some films

Like, what's the other film? What's the film where it's a girl meets a really, really rich guy and it's also based in Asia and shit?

- Not the one with Jackie Chan, right? - It's one of the movies where they meet a rich guy. - Yeah, I was like- - Help me out here. - Naby, help me out. The one that was filmed in Malaysia. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the one with Jackie Chan is also filmed in Malaysia. - Oh fuck. Is every Asian romance just like fucking filmed in Malaysia? But Romeo and Juliet?

- I have to look at- - Oh fuck, Michelle Yeoh was in that as well. I completely forgot. Oh my God, of course she can speak English. I'm a fucking clown. Oh my God. It's on the fucking tip of my tongue. - While you're thinking about that though, I think the one thing I really appreciate about "Everything Everywhere" was just like how, I mean, for one, it's fucking hilarious. But actually, it's on the nose, but it's not cheesy, I guess. - It's a really good movie. - And also, it's just really fucking shot well.

- It is. - It was almost like an art house film. - Watching that gave me the same vibes, not exactly the same tone, but the same vibes as watching "The Matrix" for the first time where they just had this really, really interesting idea. And they took this concept

which in the matrix was it's all virtual world and you can break the rules of this virtual world, become a Kung Fu master and all that. It had that same kind of vibe where it's this really- - Like anything could happen. - Yeah, that this anything could happen. And it was a really interesting concept and they explored it in the most interesting way possible. - Yeah. - I felt like everyone cared.

- In that movie. Like every little detail that felt like it was really done to the utmost. You know, even some of the fight scenes, the camera angles were crazy. - Oh my God, some of the choreography feels crazy. - I mean, we know that Michelle Yeoh can fight, you know, and it's been in a lot of action films. So it was just, yeah, it was just a fucking amazing movie. - 'Cause it's so weird, 'cause it's like, I feel any other movie,

would like take the same concepts that "Everything Everywhere" had and would just like really fucking dumb it down to the point where you wouldn't be able to take it seriously. Like "The Bagel" for instance. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Right, like that scene was like, I remember when I was watching that, I was just like, oh, okay, this is kind of dumb. But then by the end of it, I was just like, no, "The Bagel." Like I was so invested in it. I was like, don't go into "The Bagel." And I just like stood back, I'm just like,

What am I saying? Why am I invested in this fucking bagel? - Yeah, it's one of the most refreshing films I've seen in a very, very long time. - I mean, speaking of Matrix, you were saying, I also watch Matrix Resurrections. - Whoa. - No, is it?

- Is it Revelations? - No. - It's Resurrection. - Revelations is the third one. - Bro, it fucking needs a resurrection, bro. - Oh my God. - No, it did not need a resurrection. - Dude, okay. - It needs one now, it's dead. - If Top Gun is the perfect example of a long franchise coming back in a modern way and it being successful, Matrix Resurrections is the opposite.

where they just tried to throw in as much fan service as possible and it tried to be way too meta to the point where it's just fucking dumb. - I think there's only like one person in the world that enjoyed "Matrix Resurrection" and that's the one person who wrote that script on fanfiction.com. - Yeah. - Because that's what it fucking felt like. - Oh my God. - Did you watch it? - I watched it, yeah. - I haven't watched it. - Just the whole meta of the fact that- - It sounded so bad. - Just the whole meta of the fact that like Keanu Reeves' character is the one that like, he's a game developer who created the "Matrix" games.

And then like Sony entertainment is just like, we want you to make the next matrix game, but it's actually the movie that you're currently watching. I don't know. I think, I think we might've, I think I might've mentioned this conversation. I can't remember if it's been on camera or off, but,

- I'm glad someone gets my- - Yeah, the one thing though that I think pissed me off the most- - What were you talking about? - Yeah. - I think the one thing though that pissed me off the most more than that was the fact that they replaced Smith and Morpheus with two different actors. - Yeah. - And I'm just like, I want Lawrence Fishburne. I don't know who this other guy is, but he's not my Morpheus. - Well, Lawrence Fishburne's in John Wick.

- Yeah, but I can- - That's the new matrix. - But I was like, where's Hugo Weaving? I want the Hugo Weaving Mr. Smith, not this fucking like- - 'Cause when you have Laurence Fishburne and John Wick when they meet in the thing, you can feel the energy. - Yeah, palpable. You can tell. You're like fucking, "Yeah, how you doing?" - "My man!" - It's good, it's good. - I heard though that like, they didn't even like hit up Laurence Fishburne for this like- - That's fucked up. - New movie. And it's like, how could you not?

- Like he's such a pivotal actor in the Matrix franchise. And same with Hugo Weaving as well. And they replaced Mr. Smith instead of Hugo Weaving like Chad mode, they replaced him with this fucking like- - He's a frat boy. - Yeah, he's a frat boy. - Man's a human fist bump. Like what the fuck did they do to him? - Yeah, he's like the Silicon Valley like crony that you would never want to be friends with. - I'm just waiting for John Wick 4 now.

It's trailer recently. Oh, really? Yeah, it's got announced. I'm pretty sure. Yeah. End of 2023, maybe? Hopefully then into a Matrix resurrection. I'm sure it's going to be. One, two, and three were amazing. I'm sure four will be amazing. Have you watched John Wick? I've

I've watched the first one. Yeah, I've watched the first one. Yeah. And I do want to watch the other two. I just haven't had the time. I don't watch many movies, actually. I don't really know what's going on, but it's such a joy to watch. Yeah. I think because everything... Because it's such... Actually, I never go back and watch the previous movie. So I remember one quite well because the plot was simple. Yeah, right. And then two, something happens. Yeah. And...

I'm not sure. And then three, I'm just watching it and I'm thinking, yes, but the choreography is just amazing. - I mean, you basically just described the matrix as well. - It's so good. Like the fight scenes are so good in John Wick. It's such a joy. - Going back to "Everything Everywhere All at Once", what I was trying to remember, the film I was trying to remember was "Crazy Rich Asians".

- Oh, yes. - I was genuinely gonna say that as a meme. 'Cause I thought that wasn't- - No, that's literally. - I didn't think that was the movie you were talking about. - Oh, no, no. - I was gonna meme and say that. - Well, 'cause I was thinking what other film about Asians- - You said the word rich in Asians. So I was like- - Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's why I was like, I thought I was like, I should fucking know this. - He was talking about Crazy Rich Asians and he said Rich Asians. - 60% of the title and you're like, what was it called?

I was like, what's the one with the rich Asians? And they're kind of crazy. That's why I was going to say it as a meme. I was like, there's no way it would be that movie because he would have remembered. Because there's only really one fucking movie about a rich Asian. I don't know. One of them meets a rich person and one of them's poor or whatever. It was crazy rich Asians. But one thing that...

- One thing that took me out of that film was the fact that pretty much everyone spoke English to that film. And that's what took me out of that film. That's one thing I've really, really liked about "Everything Everywhere All at Once." Because I remember the scene that took me out the most out of "Crazy Rich Asians" was when the mom was talking to the son and she was speaking in English.

And I'm like, there's no fucking way this would happen. Even if they're bilingual, if a mom is scolding a son, you know for a fact she's using her mother tongue. There is absolutely zero fucking way that she's going to be speaking English. And one thing I fucking loved

is that they didn't give a shit in "Everything Everywhere All At Once." There was such a mix between subtitles where they were speaking Chinese or Mandarin and there was sometimes the daughter would just reply in English. - Yeah, that's what I like. Even in the opening scene when the husband and the mom are talking to each other, half of it is in, it's like a perfect mix of Chinese and then English and then right back to Chinese again. That's so accurate.

- That's what it's like. - That's what it would be like. - Yeah, we don't speak English. Like some people speak English. Sometimes it's a fucking mix. Sometimes your mom says something to you in her mother tongue and you reply in English because you can't be asked to fucking. - Even though like the setting for that movie is so fantastical, the dialogue felt so real. - It was so grounded in like, it was so grounded in reality as well in a sense where characters actually acted

like how I recognize how they do in real life and everything as well. And yeah, it just made me fucking happy to see

my culture represented in this way. You know, it's yeah. - I mean, I feel like shows in general that interweave languages into the story are generally just like, I mean, you have to, you're already going out of the way so much to do that, right? So like stuff like Narcos, Breaking Bad, all those kinds of shows that they get a lot of Spanish actors and stuff. - Yeah, yeah, exactly.

makes the world so much more believable when you have characters that would be bilingual or would speak X language in that setting. And it just shows that like, oh, somebody cared a lot about details. I don't give a fuck if I have to read some subtitles for two seconds. We're anime watchers. Yeah, exactly. Oh no, you don't, fuck, okay. Maybe you need English subtitles, I don't know.

- Yeah, sometimes I do. - Maybe you're watching English shows, you're like, "I don't know." - It's like, "Oh my God, yeah." - Because obviously we're all bilingual here. And so it was just so refreshing just to see the bilingual life be actually represented in film. Because I feel like for the longest time, Hollywood was just so scared of subtitles, except it was- - Oh yeah. - The only place I ever saw it was World War II movies. Some reason World War II movies, okay, German, bad.

We subtitled that, you know? Everywhere else it's just like, okay, the bad guys are speaking English and I don't know why, but they're just, everyone just speaks perfect English. - It's funny just because like as a director, if you're only fluent in English, you might not have the confidence to be like, okay, I trust that these guys can do their thing. - I feel, yeah, now that you say that, that was like the one like tiny aspect of "The Last Samurai" that I hated. Was the fact that like, in some instances where I'm like, why are you speaking English? You are a fucking daimyo.

and you're just like busting out English to Tom Cruise. I'm like, that is not how it would have played out. Speak Japanese. - I'd like to think wherever Tom Cruise goes, people just start speaking English. - Yeah. - It doesn't matter who you are. - And then they're like trying to like damage control it with like Tom Cruise is like, yeah, I can learn a couple lines of Japanese for this film and just say it in a really shit accent. It's like, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Yeah. Because I think like finally we're getting to the point where more like multicultural bilingual people have gotten their way into the movie industry and are able to handle this outside

at a level that's satisfactory to the audience. Yeah, 'cause before it was like, yeah, fucking Germans in World War II movies or Russians. I'm kind of thinking if there's any other languages that was like subtitled a lot or like any proper languages that you see in a lot of Hollywood films, but it's- - Because every other European language would just be like, oh, let's just get an American actor kind of speaking English in that country's accent.

- Yeah, yeah. - So it's like, if it was like a French character, you would never hear them speaking French. They would just speak English in a French accent. It's like, yeah, he's French, trust. - Or if it was like a fucking Middle Eastern, if it was set in the Middle East, then you'd never have talked to those characters. That was just a random woman at a store that the fucking- - Spoke perfect English. - And that the fucking main character would be like running through or some shit like that, you know?

- That's true. - So yeah, watch "Everything Ever Real" all at once. One of the best movies I've seen in a long fucking time. - Yes, I agree. - Such a good movie. - I'm trying to think if there's anything else I've watched recently. I still haven't watched- - "Petacurse 4", you finished it? - I haven't yet. - I never even watched "Breaking Bad". - I like the scene where Mike tells Walter to put his dick away. That's in "Breaking Bad", right? That's in "Breaking Bad".

- Why do you love this meme so much? - I don't know. You know when you discover like a video and you end up watching it like five times a day, you know, that's the put your dick away Walter meme for me. - You just walk past like Garnt's house on the wall and you just hear, "Put your dick away Walter." Like that's it. Why are you laughing so much at that? - I did such a good job.

I like the scene where the guy says, you can call me sus. I'm very glad that Breaking Bad memes are still in. It's been how many years and Breaking Bad memes just do not die. I think it's because of Bedical Soul. It's been doing wonders. But all the memes are from Breaking Bad still.

- I know. - Like they're all Jesse and you know, there are some soul memes, but it's mainly all Jesse. - It's kind of getting to the point where Breaking Bad memes are kind of getting to the point of like SpongeBob, you know, where it just lives on in memes. And I don't know why the memes have just lived on. Like you think that they would have exhausted all of the meme material 'cause this shows like how many years old, but they still like the memes keep refreshing and they keep getting like good new memes. And I don't know fucking how.

But yeah, like Better Call Saul, I've heard amazing things about it. Sydney will not stop raving about it. It's so, so good. You've got to watch all of Better Call Saul. Is it like a spin-off of Breaking Bad? Prologue. Prologue, okay. It says before, but it's about the lawyer following his life.

- You say loyal as if I know the character. - Saul Goodman. - You know Saul Goodman. Everyone knows Saul Goodman. - I know the name Saul Goodman from the memes. - You know Saul Goodman. - It's like the ancient meme of like Saul and it's like, it's Saul Goodman. - It's held up like as good as, like it's as good as "Breaking Bad."

- I've heard the final season is like nutty. - It's insane. It's so good. And at the time of recording, there's literally one more episode out in like a few days. But it's so fucking good. - Well, Joey, you finally watched "The Boys", right? - Watched as in the first two episodes. - Oh, okay, the first two episodes. - But I highly am loving- - Wait, why haven't you continued it?

'cause I just haven't really had the time to sit down and watch it. - Yeah, same here. - The first season three was amazing. - Yeah, but like so far, first two episodes so far has been fucking amazing. I just love Carl Urban, everything he does. - Yeah, he's great. - Yeah, he's like one of my favorite actors. - I still gotta watch season three. - Oh, season three is so good. - Is it the best season so far you reckon? - I think.

For me, yeah, probably. I think out of all the seasons, it's probably the best one. Because I think I enjoyed season one the most. I've only seen the first two seasons. Season two was- I heard season two was a bit of a slowdown, right? There was some really slow moments in season two. Season one was just like every episode was a banger. Season two had a good beginning, had a good ending. I think the middle was a bit, was a bit, still waiting to watch season three because Sydney wants to watch

all of the boys together again. And I'm like, can we just start on season 300? - She's already seen it. - Huh? - She's already seen it. - Yeah, she's already seen the first two seasons, but she wants to refresh her memory. - That's a lot of time to put into refreshing your memory. - Just watch a recap on YouTube or something. - Just go to Movie Clips YouTube channel and just watch all the clips of it. - You do not need that, it's so excessive.

It's like watching TV series. You get nerfed when you're in a relationship and you start watching together. You actually get fucking nerfed. You get this Joey. 'Cause sometimes you just wanna watch ahead by yourself. But like, I think like she would get less offended if I like slapped her mom than if I started the boy season three by myself. - I'm the opposite right now because Aki just caught up with all of the stranger things, like seasons.

And I'm just like, can we start again from season one? And she's like, fuck you, no. Watch it yourself, you little bitch. I'm like, all right, fuck. - Yeah, 'cause you watched "The Crown" together with Aki as well, right? - Yeah.

- That's great, I love that series. I'm still waiting for the next one. - I don't know, sometimes I just like watching things at my own pace. And especially now, time is limited. Free time is limited. And when I feel like watching "The Boys" or when I feel like watching this TV series- - You gotta talk her out of that, that whole rewatching season one and two. You gotta shut that down. - That's a bit excessive. - You gotta shut that down. You gotta stop that right now.

No, no, no, Sydney. This is not how we're doing TV. Once you've watched something, we've watched it, Sydney. - We can't agree on it, which is why I haven't started season three, which is the sole reason why we haven't started season three yet. - Yeah, but just tell her, "No, we're not doing this." - But I'm married now, Connor. I'm married. - Yeah, that means you have more leeway to say, "No, yeah, that's true, that's true." What are you gonna do, divorce me?

She'd be like, we're not doing this. We're not watching season one. Am I the unreasonable one here? I think she's the unreasonable one. So why'd you get divorced? She wanted to watch season one of the boys again. The account was like, diabolical.

But you also watched Invincible, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I watched it all. That was, oh my God, that was such a good series. Like I knew I was going to enjoy it because of all the memes that I saw and just from like the concept of it. Cause it's like, you know, we were talking about Marvel before, right? And like, I am so much better. I am definitely in that camp of, I'm so fucking sick of the just tropey superhero shit. And then finally, and then when I read about the concept for Invincible, I was like, oh fucking finally, you know, this, this seems way up my alley and I watched it and I remember, I think it was either you or,

you or both of you was saying like, yeah, it's like a really violent series. Yeah. And I was watching through episode one and I was just like...

there's nothing really violent about it. And then after the credits, you know, after the credits, I was like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. - That's when I was like, oh, this is something special. - I was like, okay, now we're talking. Hell yeah. And then, yeah, I binged it in like two days while I was in LA and it was fucking amazing. - Such a good show.

I finally got to see all the memes in context. I finally saw the Think Mark Think meme and I'm just like, oh, that's where that's from, okay. It's such a good feeling where you watch a series where you've only consumed it through memes. And then you finally see that meme moment and you're like, it makes so much sense now, I get it. - That was me with the entirety of SpongeBob because I didn't grow up with SpongeBob because we didn't have Nickelodeon when I was growing up. And I only actually sat through and watched

all of SpongeBob like last year or the year before. How much of SpongeBob is there? - There's a lot. - It's like five or six seasons, but like- - No, no, no, no. - Is it more than that? - There's like fucking 30. - Is there? - Yes. - But only the first four seasons matter. - Okay, so that changed a lot. - Because anything after season four is shit. - We just went through, I watched all of SpongeBob too. - How many seasons of SpongeBob is there?

- 13. - 13. - That wasn't a back pedal, that was like a whole fucking evolution backwards. That went from four to- - No, I will happily go monkey. - I'm gonna fucking learn how to moonwalk there with how much you fucking- - I will happily fucking devolve my statement because like,

- To evolve my statement. - To evolve my statement. I will go monkey statement on that. Because honestly, after like, I started watching season five and it just like, I don't know what happened. It's like with kind of like with the Simpsons where it's like, I don't know if they like changed writers or something like that. - No, the creator left. - Oh, the creator left. Okay, yeah, right, right, right. - I forgot his name.

- He left and Nickelodeon took it over. Well, they took it over anyway, but I think he had no say in it anymore. So a lot of the charm was kind of gone. - Yeah, it immediately, it felt like SpongeBob and it was SpongeBob, but the jokes just didn't hit anymore. And I was like, oh, it was just a sudden change all of a sudden as well. And then Aki was like, yeah, honestly, anything past this point is just kind of shit.

Also like Spongebob became like the face of Nickelodeon. So they like couldn't get as risque in some. I think so. I don't know. They rely on Spongebob a lot. Like I think like Nickelodeon's programming is like majority Spongebob. Like if you, like, I don't know. It's not about his Cartoon Network. Then he fucking plays Teen Titans Go. When I was in America, I wanted to watch Cartoon Network. It was just Teen Titans Go all the fucking time.

And I was like 9:00 PM and I want to watch something. I'm like, what is this? This is shit. Give me the normal Teen Titans. - But that's why like the early SpongeBob seasons were so good because it almost had like a Ren and Stimpy vibe to it where it's just like, it's some of the jokes I'm just like, children should not be consuming this. It's very adult content. - What made you want to just watch SpongeBob? - Because I finally got to the point where I'm like, I'm consuming all of these SpongeBob memes 'cause they're fucking everywhere. Like Breaking Bad, they're just like timeless memes. And I'm just like, I kind of want to know

I wanna know what the fuck is happening. Like, I wanna see these memes in context. - I like how you like timeless memes. It's like, put your dick away Walter. - Timeless, timeless, timeless memes. - And so like, you know, I was just like, I'm finally gonna sit down and just like, because again, like I didn't grow up with Nickelodeon at all. So I had the same thing with Avatar The Last Airbender as well. Like I didn't grow up with that shit. So like three- - Have you watched it?

- Like three years ago, I finally watched it. 'Cause at one point, like everything was on Netflix. So I was just like, oh fuck it, it's on Netflix. I'm just gonna binge the whole thing. And it was fucking amazing. - Well, like, because I haven't even, I haven't seen SpongeBob yet. So none of the memes make any sense to me, but yeah. - Never watched it? - I mean, I watched one or two episodes fully of SpongeBob. Again, I didn't have fucking Nickelodeon as a kid because I didn't have Sky TV.

because if it wasn't on channel, the first four channels, then I probably wouldn't have watched it, unfortunately, because I didn't have cable. So I never got the chance to watch SpongeBob. And so I only know about it through memes. I've always assumed that not meant to make sense. It was on Welsh TV. It was on Welsh TV with a Welsh dub. Really? Yeah. What's SpongeBob SquarePants in Welsh?

I don't know. I can't remember. I remember it was really weird though. And even as a kid, I was like, I think the English one is way better than this.

But like what I really appreciate about SpongeBob is the fact that like a lot of the jokes that didn't end up being memes, I think are even funnier than the ones that did end up being memes. 'Cause it's like, again, it's like the first couple of seasons of SpongeBob was so good because it's like some of the funniest jokes are some of the subtlest ones where like kids wouldn't get it, but the adults be fucking cracking up about it because it's like, it's a little too clever for it to be just packed away as a children's show, I feel.

- Yeah, and it's great. It's fucking hilarious. - I love SpongeBob. - I can see now finally after watching like the, all the funny seasons. - Does it still hold up? - Absolutely, it still holds up. - That's pretty good. - Okay. - The original episodes are really funny. - Really funny. - Yeah. - Well, how did you end up watching it? 'Cause I don't know how you would watch it here in Japan.

It was on one of the streaming platforms, I think. But I think recently now they took it off because I think Nickelodeon is trying to do what Disney Plus is doing. Is Nickelodeon Paramount? I think it's Paramount, right? Paramount Plus exists. The fucking thing is there's so many streaming services now that it's just impossible to keep up

on where everything is at. - Well, it's because like since Disney Plus started popping off, it's like every other programming now is just like, oh, we can do that as well. - It's not just that, it's people are realizing, oh, people don't use Netflix anymore. Not as many people use Netflix anymore.

And yeah, Disney+ apps has been like absolutely killing it in terms of like sales and numbers, which makes me, yeah, it does. - Disney's gonna own everything. - It does make me sad. - They're gonna own literally everything. We're all gonna be- - I mean, we've kind of- - Get ready for the national currency of Japan. - Mickey coin. - Disney coins. - Yeah.

When's the Disney cryptocurrency coming out? That's probably going to be a more stable coin than the yen. No, they won't settle for crypto. They'll have their own fiat currency. They'll take over like Venezuela or something. And they'll be like, we should buy it. Let's buy Venezuela. It's like, what are you using Venezuela? Mickey coin? We'll make him, yeah, Mickey coin. And then that's it. I'm telling you, Disney's going to own everything. Yeah. It's scary. They own so much stuff. Yeah.

- Yeah. - Yeah. - But like, we've gone back to the point now where it's basically cable TV again, where you pay for so many streaming services and you don't know where every streaming, you wanna watch a show and you're like, I wanna watch X show. And I'm like, where do I watch it? - Yeah, which channel is on? - Which channel is on? - At least with cable, you kind of got everything.

Now you can't get everything. Yeah. Now I'm like, oh fuck, I kind of miss having the bundle where you've got everything in one. Now it's like an individual cable for each stream platform. I just like, I do not, I just don't,

It's gone back now where I'm like, I just don't wanna pay for all these streaming services. Like I have Amazon Prime just because I want Amazon Prime. Not because I wanna watch shit. I'd rather like pull my eyes out than use the Amazon Prime video service. It's awful. It's so bad. And then Apple TV, fuck off.

- Absolutely no. I'm not, one, I don't even own anything Apple. So even if there's a show I wanna watch on Apple TV, like Severance, how? How do I watch it? I will pay money to watch it, but I'm not buying an Apple thing and I'm not buying an Apple TV. So like, now I can't watch it. Or you wanna watch something else? It's on Paramount. I didn't even know Paramount had something. And then CNN had their own thing a while back that colossally failed. - Did they? - Yeah, they did. It was awful. And then Hulu, who?

- Who? - In America, it's fine, but outside of America, it sucks. And then what else is there? There's Disney Plus. I don't care about Disney. I don't wanna watch Disney stuff. - Yeah, you're not missing much. If you don't care about Star Wars or Marvel, there's literally no reason. - Then maybe you wanna watch one TV show one time. - Yeah, exactly. - Oh, fuck me. - Exactly. - They got a lot of anime now, though.

- The thing is, I agree. We have actually not just devolved. - It's worse now. - It's worse now because at least with cable packages, you could cancel all of them at once. They came in a bundle. So you could cancel the bundle that you wanted, right? Now you don't even know like how to cancel most of these services, right? That's what I fucking hate. It's easier to cancel cable services than it is to cancel your fucking subscription for one of these services. It's an absolute fucking nightmare. - Well now there's subscription services

that will manage your subscription services. That's how out of control subscription services has gotten. - Are you actually serious? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's like apps where you put in all your stuff and you can manage them and it will tell you when it's news and stuff. - What if I went unsubscribed from that? - That's how bad like this has gotten. Like people just like,

I actually, I genuinely believe it's way harder to like manage your money now than ever before. Cause like people are just paying for shit that they don't realize. And you just keep forgetting until you get the money taken out. You're like, shit. Yo dog, I heard you got subscription services. Well, did you, did you hear the thing about the BMW cars? No. So, okay. Oh my God. How have you not heard of this?

There's a BMW car, right, that you could buy. And when you bought the car, to have the heating in the seats enabled, you had to pay a subscription service.

Are you serious? You don't hear about this? What? I'm genuinely serious. Like, look it up. You'll see. They were selling a car where if you wanted to have the seats be heated, it's already in the car. Like, just to enable it. You have to pay monthly. Yeah. How much do you have to pay? It was something...

- What? - $18 a month. - $18 a month? - $18 a month. - For heated seats? - $180 for a year or $300 for three years. - $300 for three years. - What? - Did you not hear about this? - What?

- Yeah, I was like, that one actually like, I never had a visceral reaction when I heard that. I was like, you have no, no, no, no. - At what point is it too far? Like what's next? It's like, would you like to open your window? - We are living the dystopian nightmare. Yo, Black Mirror was fucking right, man. - Well, it's 'cause they've taken like the Ryanair approach to cars. I think their argument was that the car is cheaper for it. We're selling it cheaper. But if you want, you can pay what would be the normal price

but you can turn it on. But I'm like, this is stupid because surely after X amount of years, you'll have made a profit on the fact that I was buying heated seats. I just, I hate it so much. I hate the idea of paying a subscription for, oh God, it's just so dirty. - Like I wouldn't mind subscriptions so much if it was just as easy to like sign off

to just exit the subscription as it was to enter the subscription. But unfortunately, asshole designs, you wanna cancel the subscription? Okay, let's hide this webpage fucking like five clicks in the small print.

And then you have to fucking even like the ones where you have- - Some of these UX designers should be slapped. - The ones where you have to email the service in order to cancel your subscription, fuck you. - Yeah. - Fuck you. Okay. Actually, actually fuck you. If, you know, I can kind of understand if there's a button

hidden away in the user setting somewhere. Okay, I can kind of understand. But if you have to go out your way to message the service to cancel the fucking subscription, that is fucked up. - Yeah, but then you just do the, you cancel your card. - Huh? - You just pull up your card. - Just cancel your card. - Well, I know a lot of people use those. - That's a brute force method. It's like, I could turn off my TV with the remote or I could just pull the fucking thing out of the wall.

- I don't know about your app, one of my apps, it allows me to cancel subscriptions from my bank. - Oh really? - So I can like tell it to stop and it'll just fucking pull my card out. - Okay. - But there's also, I know there's service- - I thought you meant just like fucking setting your card on fire. - I know there's a service, I don't use it 'cause I'm too lazy, but there's a service where you can put your card into this thing and every time you want to sign up for a subscription, it'll make a new card within this app.

- Yeah. - Is that also a subscription service? - I think so as well. - God damn it. - But at least then you can like, if you wanna give an app your credit card, you can give it a card that you can just turn off anytime. So if you wanna like just hard be like, nah, fuck you. - Yeah. - I don't know though, I've never tried it. I don't know how good it is. I'm just talking out of my ass. I've had it online. I don't know how good they are. - It might also be a scam. - Literally anything is like, like I bought,

I bought those tile trackers, right? It's amazing, right? Great. But one caveat, and I didn't know this when I was buying it. You don't actually get to do everything with this tracker. It'll only tell you where it is now. And it has a function where it's like, do you want to see where it was the last 30 days? So you click, oh, view last 30 days. Oh, pay $3 a month to see where it was a few days ago. - Are you serious? - Yeah, dead serious, I'm sure. And then like,

but it's just a bunch of other random shit and where it like debates you into like, so if I go, oh, like smart alerts. Yeah, look, so if I go smart alerts, boom, it's like get more go premium. - 30 pounds a year. - Yeah, and it's like, I already paid a lot of money for these stupid things. So why are you charging me a lot of money? I don't know, I don't get it. To me it's like, do you hate me? What did I do that makes you hate me this much?

- Yeah, fucking we are literally like living the dystopian nightmare. We're gonna be like Cyberpunk 2077. - Microtransactions for every necessity. - When is like Gacha gonna be more popularized in the gaming industry? I think it's only a matter of time, unfortunately. - I mean, I would argue it's already pretty fucking popular. - Yeah, what do you mean? It's fucking rampant, it's everywhere.

- Yeah, but I remember when Gacha games was just like, oh, those are like the weeb games, right? And then everyone else was complaining about microtransaction, but because of Genshin Impact, unfortunately, I'm also a Genshin player, so I've like contributed to the evil, unfortunately. - Gacha is just like normalized now, unfortunately. I think it's gotten to the point where people-

- Or even in like other mainstream games? - I think so. - I think so. - People don't bat an eye now about dropping a hundred bucks on randomized fucking boxes. And it's fucking sad. - They just don't specifically call it gacha. - Are you talking about gacha or loot boxes? - Both. - Okay. - Loot boxes are gacha. - Yeah, that's the same thing. - That's what I meant. - They just don't specifically say gacha. They leave that terminology for the weeb games, but like everything else just like, yeah, it just says another fucking synonym to that word.

and just pretends that it's not gotcha. - Yeah. - Right? It's like, no, it's fucking gotcha. Yeah. - I think gotcha is hilarious when it's taking money from rich people. But when people are like broken doing it, I'm like, oh, no, this is sad. - Yeah. - Speaking of subscription services, look at all these patrons. - Oh my God. - We're part of the problem. - We're contributing. - I know, I know guys, I know, okay. - If you wanna cancel your subscription, please email me at [email protected].

- I kind of realized halfway through the subscription service rant when I'm like, fuck, we got to shout out a patron right after this. - But at least there's faces that you can complain to. - Exactly. - If you'd like to join the system, then head on over to our Patreon, patreon.com/trashcast. - Non-refundable, non-cancelable, you can never cancel, sign up to a year. - Also, post on Twitter, send us some memes on the subreddit, if you hate our face, listen to us on Spotify.

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