We Should Never Travel in Japan | Trash Taste #49
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- Hello, welcome to another episode of the Trash Taste Podcast. I am boss man one and I'm here with boss man two and three, here to get the dub. - Hey, we are not the boys anymore, we are boss men. - We are the boss men. - Why did we not call that podcast that? Welcome to the boss man podcast. - No, no. - Every week is a dub.

- How are you boys doing? - Good. - I'm tired as all hell because- - You're in the middle of moving right now, aren't you? - By the time this comes out, I would have finished moving, yes. But yeah, like literally tomorrow is the moving day for me. So I have been just scrambling for the past week, just like cleaning. You don't realize how much stuff you have in your house until you start

- It's always like that, right? Because I remember whenever I would move, like you start packing stuff up and you think to yourself, it's gonna take a day at most. And you pack up like all the main stuff in like a day. And you're like, oh, I'm 90% of the way packed. And then for some reason, all the like the little shit that just gets left over, that takes like two days. - Wait, let me introduce ourselves. - 'Cause you own, like I feel like 50% of the items you own, you never use, think about, but you,

- You think you need them. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - You also never see them either because they're like either put in a closet or like, you know, kind of out of sight somewhere, right? - But you have like a colander, like you need a colander, but like you don't really think about it until you start using it or till there, you're like, what the fuck do I do with this? - We have like, we have this like shaved ice machine that I think, I think Maylene got it for us.

but we had it for like the last summer 'cause mainly it was like, oh, I wanna like come to your guys' place and like the girls can have like a kind of girls like day and we can just make shaved ice or whatever. Never used it. - We used it once. - Oh, okay, we used it once. We used it once and it's just this huge brick of a thing that's just like sitting in the kitchen. I'm like, why is this here?

- There's always that one drawer in every kitchen, right? That is just the unused appliance drawer, right? Where it's just these appliances that people give you as gifts or that you think is gonna be cool when you host like that dinner party that never happens. And then there's just these like random appliances that just get put into this drawer and you forget you even have. - Exactly. - And we have like- - Forks. I use my hands. - Yeah, but like I got this kind of cleaning service thing because, okay.

- One thing, okay, we're immediately gonna go onto, this is one thing I hate about Japan, throwing away trash, right? And especially the big trash, right? 'Cause like in Australia- - It's us. - Yeah. Just pick myself up. 'Cause like, I don't know about in the UK, but in Australia we have like this thing, I think it happens once every two or three months.

it's called like council cleanup day. So basically what we do is we take huge appliances like couches, beds, you know, drawers, all that kind of stuff. And we literally just throw it out in front of the street, like just onto the street. And basically it's, you know, you throw it out,

People can kind of walk around and just grab stuff if they want. Like if they think, oh, I can use that couch. - Two to three months? - It's like every two to three months or something. - How have I never seen this? - Really? - In Australia, yeah, it happens. I don't know if maybe that's just like the area I grew up in. - In the UK, I don't think there's enough space to just throw things. - Oh, I think it's about Japan for a second. - No, no, no, not Japan, in Australia. In Australia we have that, where we just throw stuff out and then big garbage truck basically comes and collects all the stuff that doesn't get picked up after like a week, I think.

I think Japan doesn't work like that. So like we had to throw away our bed, which is like a queen size bed, a couch and like couple of tables and like a sofa and stuff like that. A lot of big stuff, but like you can't just throw it out with the rest of the trash. You have to either, you have to go to your like local council and be like,

I wanna throw this stuff away. And they give you these like tickets that you have to pay for. - Yeah. - To basically be like, all right, I'm throwing this out on this day. And then you throw it out onto the street. - And you have to book it and tell them. - You have to book it. - And you have to tell them the exact measurements of the thing so they can plan out the truck. - Or what I found out is you can just, there's just services out there that you can just call up and be like, I wanna throw all this crap away. How much is it to get rid of? - Yeah. - A little more expensive than like the whole council thing.

so much easier, I can imagine. - I mean, it's not a price for me. It's like we talked about last week, it's just getting the paperwork done that like fucking I'm scared of. - Yeah, exactly. And like, I'm not even finished with the fucking paperwork too, 'cause we'll have to do more after we move. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Because Japan is just like a never ending sea of paperwork. But like, I was like, okay, I'm getting rid of this giant bed, I'm getting rid of this couch, this table, all these like big appliances. And I'm like, okay, well these are the big things gone. So, you know, maybe like,

30% of my belongings probably gone. It's more like 3%. - I feel like in like your bedroom or office, there's so many little things that you just never think about. - Especially my office. - Yeah. - And my office has so many little things. I'm just like,

Well, first of all, I'm looking forward to like the moving company coming in and seeing like all of like my fucker skateboards and shit like that. Just being like, whoa. - They'll be like, yo, is that a REM 1/8 scale? - Damn son. - Just like giving them a tour of your house. This is the junior section. - Like free office tour. - No, actually to be fair, when the moving guy first came in to like check to see what we had, he walked into my office and he was like,

- Otaku's dream. - It's like, wow, Jesus, this guy's got a fucking collection. - I had like the opposite happen where like, I only use my tatami room to film in and I only use it, so I have a big tatami room that I normally do the cosplay videos in. And I'm really bad, so I never clean them up after, I just leave the cosplays there until I do the next video and then I clean it up.

And then one time they didn't tell me they were doing this, but there was like, they were checking like the fire alarms in the building. And I was like, yeah, sure, come in, come in. And he's going around my house. He goes into my office, you know, he looks and he's like, oh, I'm like, yeah, I like JoJo. He just looked at me like I was a fucking weird. And I was like, all right, thanks buddy. And then as he went to like my tatami room, I was like, oh shit, I just remembered that all my shit was in there.

And so like, I go in to check that he's there and this man is just standing in the middle of like my cosplay everywhere. This stuff reached, holding up something to the fire alarm, just looking like, look down, don't look, don't look at anything. And then after this guy left really awkwardly, an hour later, someone else came along from the same company in the building and did the exact same thing. And I was like, wait, why am I being checked twice? - Oh, he's like a spot man.

- I don't know, I was really confused. - Just gotta make sure my friend got it right. - He's like, "Yo, I heard this free cosplay, what's in that?" And then I had the exact same interaction again where I was like, "Oh yeah, sorry about the mess in this room." - By the way, I like JoJo. - By the way, I also like JoJo. And they're like, "Oh really, you fucking weirdo." - But luckily, as I said, I'm pretty sure I mentioned in the previous.

podcast episode, we got to service that where they just do all the packing for us. My God, I can not imagine if I had to do that all myself. - I just kind of realized what I'm going to have to go through when we move because my room is going to be fine. But then I got Sydney's room, which the amount of fucking fucked up shit in Sydney's room. - Oh, be careful, that's the pussy of the round two.

- That is expensive. - So I remember this one time we had to get like our doorbell fix, right? So we thought our house was pretty clean. Basically whenever someone needs to come in to check our house at all, we just make sure like Sydney's room is just fucking locked off. It's like a quarantine section. - You gotta put up like the R18 curtains.

like to the doorway, right? So only adults allowed. - It's like you put the fucking biohazard sign on the door just to make sure no one gets in, right? - It's radioactive, I swear. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. So how we learned our lesson was we had our doorbell fixed and of course Sydney's room was like cordoned off. But we forget that sometimes Sydney just has shit lying about the house, right? And I guess we've just become so desensitized to some of the stuff she reviews.

My fiance reviews a lot of lewd stuff. That's her channel. So we just had like a bunch of figures that were just left in the living room with just like their tits out. - Right?

- Living room material. What living room would be complete without? - Oh, I see you've seen my decor. - Oh, that's the mother knows breast, one size real scale. - So this guy just comes in, right? And the doorbell is like right next to the kitchen. And also we have a shelf right next to the kitchen, which just has two lewd, completely naked figures just right next to where the doorbell is. He takes a look at the figures.

looks at Sidney and just doesn't make eye contact with Sidney ever again. - He's got like hentai hair. His hair's covering his eyes. - Sweating. - Yeah, and that was probably the longest fucking hour he had to like endure of his life when he was just fixing his doorbell. - I love how he immediately looked at Sidney. Like most, like you wouldn't think that like you'd look at like Garnt, right? Being like this motherfucker, right?

leaving his loose shit out. No, immediately went to Sydney. - He's like, "God, I wish that was me. I wish my wife would let me put my dirty figures in the other thing room." - Yeah, it's the one time whenever someone comes around and I'm just like, "Yo, these loose stuff, that's not me. Guys, guys, that's not me. It's my partner." - You just silently point at Sydney's loose stuff. - No, no, seriously, seriously, it's my partner this time. - Yeah, I mean, I had to like, 'cause I have quite a few doujins and stuff like that in my bookshelf as well, so I was like,

I'll pack these away before I, 'cause like I'm with these guys for like a couple of days. I don't want like an awkward experience for a couple of days as they like sift through my doujins being like, so what's the fragile stuff and what's not the fragile stuff?

But yeah, so like because of that, I have just been so incredibly busy. I haven't been able to like sit down and like play any games. I mean, fucking Pokemon Snap came out like a few days ago. Haven't been able to like download that shit at all. - You're not ahead on videos anymore, are you? Which is just like, I heard that about Joey and I'm just like, what is going on? - Dude, me, I think, well, I mean, I think this comes at end of May, right?

It's like the slowest month I've ever had. Like, I think my next video is not coming out for like 12 days or something. I'm like, fuck my career is over dude. I used to upload daily. - It's just like the signs of the apocalypse is happening. - Yeah right. - The fucking sky is falling and Joey is not ahead on videos. - Exactly. - That's how I know the end is coming. - I'm so not ahead that I'm falling behind.

I've fallen and I can't get up. - I missed an upload as well and it like killed me. I like apologized on my YouTube page. And people were like, you don't have to apologize. And I'm like, no, I do, I do. I'm not apologizing for you, I'm apologizing to me. - Yeah, because that's the thing, right? It's like 12 days to the average YouTube viewer is like whatever. Like there's no difference between seven days between videos and like two weeks between upload. But to the person who makes it, it's like,

- Oh no. - All I think about, damn videos. - This is the first time in my career where I've been like ahead on video. So I'm just like, damn, I have some free time. Look at us. - 2021, the turns of tables. - Can't uploads more than Joey O'Connor. What? Oh my God. - Not yet, not yet. - Maybe one day. - Maybe one day. - I'll be back, I'll be back, don't worry. - Let's play a Gaunt when? Come on, let's do it.

- Wait until Garnt discovers Five Nights at Freddy's, guys. - Yeah, yeah. - It's game over. - So yeah, I mean, now that fucking lockdown's been happening again, I guess we can call off- - For the 17th time or whatever it is. - For the 17th time. I don't know, lockdown in Japan has been weird, right? - It's just a roller coaster. It goes like, the cases go up, they announce a shitty lockdown that's like two more rules added.

- And then they go back up again when they let go of restrictions. And then this is happening like the fourth time now. So we're just doing the same shit over and over again. - But this lockdown is the shortest ever. It's only two weeks or something. - Yeah, I think that- - I'm like, what's gonna change in two weeks? - I think they literally just wanted to be like, oh, golden week's happening. Let's have it not happen. - Meanwhile, every- - You wanna explain what golden week is to the viewers who don't know? - Yeah, so golden week is this week during the first week of May.

as we're recording this, we're in the middle of it right now, where it's basically just a bunch of public holidays back to back to back to back to back. So I think, yeah, so basically people just get a week off. - Do you know how I remember Golden Week? It was the one week of the year aside from like New Year's where mangakas would take a break from their weekly manga schedule. So I'm just like, oh, One Piece is on break? What the fuck's Golden Week? - Oda's like, thank God, finally. - Everything's on fire. Like, I didn't get One Piece this week.

That's the only reason I knew of golden week before moving to Japan. - Yeah, exactly. Well, because like, I think, you know, Japan needs golden week because Japan's one of the few countries that works on Christmas. You know, like Christmas is just like, I think everywhere else Christmas is like a public holiday or at least like in Australia. - Oh, Christian world. - Well, yeah, like in Australia, like, you know, it's like the second half of December until maybe the first week of January, like three weeks, it's just.

- Yeah. - Full on holiday. - Christmas here is just Valentine's day 2.0. - Yeah, basically. - It is. - It really is. - It gives a shit. - Yeah. - But they were just like, "I don't have a partner, finna work." - It's either you're on a date or you are working on something. - Yeah, exactly. So I guess like, you know, to Japan, they need golden week because it's the one time where they're almost forced to,

take the week off. - Yeah. - 'Cause otherwise they get, I mean, you know, people still are just like, no, fuck it, it's still working week for me. - Yeah, yeah. - My whole favorite thing of all the Japanese government's lockdowns is that they did the, in like, during the whole pandemic, the government thought of this amazing idea called go to travel.

- Oh yeah, that was a thing. - This is just the funniest fucking thing. So Japanese government, they were losing a lot of money obviously from tourism that they weren't getting. So in the middle of like the pandemic, this is like months ago, this is before, this is last year. - This was during the first lockdown, wasn't it? - Yeah, yeah, they were like, "Guys, we're losing too much money "in our travel economy. "We need to put some money back into it. "What we're gonna do is guys, "we're gonna give you 30% off everything "and we're gonna pay you money to go travel. "We'll give you 200 bucks to spend, "depending on how much you spend.

- Yeah, you get coupons at your destination. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - They were like, "Oh yeah, so like it's a lockdown, but also if you travel, 30% discount or anything." - Hey, hey. - "Here's some money to spend, go treat yourself, king. But don't leave the house though, but don't leave." And then like they realized it was like a colossal mistake like a month later when the cases went up a fuck ton. Because everyone's, of course everyone's gonna travel. - Exactly. - It's like you're paying me to travel and you don't want me to travel?

- Like if you went to like a five-star hotel, that's like a thousand bucks, it would go down to like 600 and then you'd be given like 300 bucks to spend. And it's like, who isn't gonna do that? Like if you have disposable income, anyone is gonna do that. - It's like dangling a carrot in front of a horse and telling the horse not to run. - Don't, don't. - I'm finna try to be responsible here, but Jaffee's government making me act up. You know what I mean? I was like, well shit, I'm going,

- And of course everyone abused the fuck out of that system. Everyone went traveling. - Yeah, 'cause it was like, why wouldn't I? - I went to like four different places. I was like, I'm obviously not, 'cause like literally everybody is going, right? So it's like, what's the point? What's the point of not going? - It was the most confusing period ever 'cause they were like, don't travel, but please travel.

"Please, please travel, we need it for the economy." - And then they shut it down like after a month. - Yeah, like a month. - Of course, it was a colossal mistake. - I went to Hokkaido, so I was like, "Fuck yeah." I didn't interact with anyone, but it was- - I think all three of us went to Hokkaido different times, right? - Why the fuck wouldn't I? - I went way after and it was because you guys kept talking about Hokkaido and I was like, "Okay."

I think it's my time to go to Hokkaido as well. Waited for lockdown to end and I'm just like, damn, this is, they weren't joking around. Fucking Hokkaido slaps, man. - Exactly. - It's like middle of fucking nowhere and no one's there. It's like great. It's peaceful. - It's fantastic. - But it was just the dumbest thing ever because if they'd have just kept, like this is the whole thing that the Japanese governments were doing where they just kind of haven't really committed to anything.

They haven't really told you not to do anything. They've been very wishy-washy. - I think that's the thing. Every restriction they've given, it seems very half-arsed from my perspective. It's not been like, we've never been fully open, but we've also never been fully closed either. - Yeah, like they've never said you can't travel around.

- Or if anything they reward you for. - And then they also said like, oh yeah, you know, restaurants please close at eight. You know, like suddenly for some reason people are just gonna magically stop getting infected before eight.

- I mean, this new lockdown, there were like restaurants can't serve alcohol anymore, right? - Yeah. - And I'm just like, so I'm still allowed to go to the restaurant. - Yeah, yeah. - But I just can't drink beer? - It's generous to even call it like half measures. It's like, you know, a quarter measure is what they do.

I don't know, I don't really care about the whole politics at all, but I wish they would just decide what they wanted to. - Well, that's the problem, isn't it? Is that like, unlike a lot of countries, the Japanese law, they can't force establishments to close down, like a lot of other countries. And so they're like,

They're like, "Yeah, okay, so we can't force you to close down, but we advise you to not serve alcohol, to close after eight." But there's also like, from what I heard, there's like a penalty for like establishments that don't follow those rules. - But if you make a fuck ton of money. - You get a fine. - If you make a fuck ton of money, the restaurants that make so much money were like, "Oh, we'll just pay the bill." - The penalty is so low that there are a lot of restaurants out there, especially in like inner Tokyo that are just like,

- Some of like the biggest restaurants I think just pay the fine. - Yeah, they just pay the fine, but they make more off of the money that they made. - And also they're like the biggest that was like not even the fine. It was like, we'll put you on a list of companies that stayed open. And obviously to a lot of Japanese people, that's pretty like, fuck, we're gonna be on a list?

But then to some of them, they were like, "I don't fucking give a shit about this." - It's like getting on the naughty list on Santa's, right? - Yeah, yeah. - It's like, "Oh no." - So dumb, so dumb. - That's the thing, this would have been, at least in Japan- - Of course, Australia and New Zealand, like totally locked down. Like New Zealand were like, "No." - Yeah, Australia- - No one could do anything. - Australia locked down for like nine months, like fully. And like people couldn't go outside for more than an hour a day. And like all restaurants were closed.

all that kind of stuff. And like, yeah. And then when in Sydney, at least we got one case and the entire city went into lockdown for like a month. Meanwhile, Japan is like,

- A thousand cases, don't drink at restaurants. It's like, cool, thanks. - Yeah, but I mean, it'll be interesting to see what happens in this next year. 'Cause every other country seems to be getting their vaccines and we are still like, we're probably not gonna be able to get our vaccines this year if we stay in Japan. It's looking more and more likely. - But I mean, you know, there's like, I know of a few of my American friends who are here who are just,

probably just gonna bite the bullet and just go back to America sometime this year and just go get the vaccine. - Everyone in my age in America is already getting it. - Yeah, exactly. - In the UK as well, right? - Yeah, in the UK as well. - It's like being a kid again when they always got the games before you. It's like, fuck man, why are you all getting the good shit? What the fuck? - It's reversed now. Japan is the last one to get it now. - Exactly. - It's like Japan was always the first, now you're the last. - I feel like I've been lied to. - But are you guys gonna do it?

- I'm probably gonna do it. - I mean, I don't blame you, I'll fucking do it. Like if I was an American or like from the UK, I would absolutely do it. - It's twofold for me, right? Because I want to- - I want to go back to the UK. - I wanna go back to the UK to visit my friends. - I want beans and toast, God damn it. - You know, it's been like, this is, I think this is longest I've been from like seeing my family and seeing my friends. So I'm just like that and the vaccine, if I can get everything done in one trip, then yeah, I'm gonna take like a month and a half off Japan and just go do the things that,

I need to do for my health and also catch up to all the things like- - Beans and toast, innit? Just wanna have it. - Fuck my friends, just beans and toast. - There's no Heinz beans here. What the fuck am I supposed to do?

- So fucking depressing. - I legitimately miss beans and toast. - I'm sorry. - I crave it. - I don't think there's a more depressing sight than just beans and toast by itself. I'm sorry. - Baked beans taste good? - As a Brit, like seeing the sights of just like beans on toast as like a fucking breakfast, dinner, whatever. - It's fantastic. - See, I feel that way, but like two or three times a year, I just wake up and I'm like, fuck it, I'll go for some beans.

- Baked beans, right? - Baked beans? - Baked beans, like Heinz baked beans, I'm like, ugh. - Great source of protein as well? - Yeah. - What's not to like? - Fuck me up. - Beans are magical. They're fucking fantastic. - Make me fart like a motherfucker, but still good, man. - Who cares? I like that. It feels like you're being cleansed.

- It's like detox. But like, that's the problem, right? It's like, at least you guys and like all my American friends have, you know, a choice to do that, right? Go back, you know, doubly like get a vaccine and do that. - Australia apparently made it illegal to return if you're from India, right? - Yeah. - Oh really? - I think a lot of- - Illegal, like you would get like, you would go to prison if you returned. - That makes sense. - It's just like, what?

- Yeah. Well, that's the problem, right? Is that like, I can't do the same for Australia because we're in no rush to get the vaccine because no one's had COVID for the past four months. So like not even my grandma who's like 92 this year has gotten it yet.

- You guys are isolated as fuck. It's hard enough to get in your country as it is. - Exactly, yeah. I mean, it makes sense, right? But like, you know, that's why Australia has done so well and same with New Zealand. - That's why if like the whole world goes through like the fucking apocalypse, Australia is just gonna be- - Australia and New Zealand are gonna be like two remaining countries. - Exactly right. - Nothing goes in, nothing comes out.

- Man, seeing the whole Joe Rogan controversy about all the vaccines and stuff. It's so frustrating that it's literally been the only thing anyone can talk about for the past year and a half is COVID and all this shit. But it's also something that you can't talk about 'cause everyone's fucking turned it into a political thing. Where it's just like,

I just wanna eat baked beans. - I just don't wanna die. - I just don't wanna be ill and I don't wanna get other people ill. - It's become like a thing like that, like even now talking about it, I feel like, fuck, there's probably gonna be like some fucking assholes in the comment who are like annoyed about it, I was talking about it. - I just wanna kiss my homies goodnight, man. - Exactly. - Come on, man, let me kiss my homies. Fucking hell. - I just wanna eat some fucking baked beans, watch "Cars 2" in the theater, you know?

- Well, I mean, wasn't it like the UK recently, I think like a couple of days ago, just had their first maskless concert?

It was like 5,000 people at a concert or something. And there were none of them wearing masks 'cause they were all vaccinated. - I'm not sure about, Malin can you like- - Can you type that? I'm pretty sure I saw that this morning. But like, I'm not surprised either because the UK has been, I mean the US and the UK have been so fucking good with their vaccines. - I loved how in the UK when they literally were like, okay guys, I think you can maybe go out for drinks now. Like the first day London was like rammed.

- Of course it would be. - And they were like, "We've been working like 10 years for this, we'll never go to the point with Jerry." It's like, oh my God. - Exactly. - I can't imagine how Wetherspoons was gonna be like as soon as they opened up. - Oh my God. - God, I do miss a good Wetherspoons actually. - The government could tell, if Britain had to fight in another war and the government was like, "Please fight, please fight for us." And they'd be like, "No, no." They're like, "Pubs will be open if you fight." They'll be like, "Where are we fighting?"

- Where are we fighting? I don't know what it is about pubs in British people, but like it turns them into something like ferocious. Like when pubs come into the equation, they become like different people. - Yeah, of course. - They suddenly become more passionate. - I feel like people in Britain weren't taking like the pandemic seriously until pubs started closing down. And that's like the real shit. - They're like, I sleep and I can't go to school or work, whatever. - Whatever. - Pubs are closed?

- What the fuck? What the fuck is a political agenda? How dare they close the polls? - That's the exact moment it got political. - I can't believe these politicians have done this. - Oh my God.

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- Yeah, almost normal concert, yeah. - Okay, damn. - If I know British people though, we fucking lie about anything to get into events and stuff. They'd be like, "Yeah, I've got a vaccine. Of course I've got a vaccine." - Yeah, tell them, "Oh, my arm hurts, ooh." - Tell me if the pendulum weren't playing, I'd be like, "Come on, mate." I know British people, come on, that's a fucking lie. There's no way. - Come on, dude. - There is no fucking way. - Come on, dude, the amount of clubs with like 16 and 17 year olds with fake Kitees.

- Come on. People are faking like their passport vaccines. - 100%. - Like the fucking bouncers give a fuck. - Yeah. - Are you kidding me? - True, true. - You can hand a fucking McDonald's like 10 coffee cart to them as an idea. They'd let you fucking in the club in the UK. - To be fair though, if any country is probably going to do like a fully normal concert first, it's gonna be the US or the UK.

with how they're going. - Yeah, I mean- - I assume. - When they should. - When they should, yeah. When they should is a different question, but- - I mean, from what I've heard from like third party information from all my mates back there, it's the one thing that we've been doing well about the pandemic, which is the vaccine response, right? - Right. - Which is just, it kind of makes sense. - We just fucking bought them all up. Fuck you other countries. - We used our first world country money.

- It's pretty tragic though. It's just like US, UK bought them all and then no one else gets it. It's like fuck. It's pretty tragic really. 'Cause you get it from the inside of the country. You're like, yeah, we're doing great. And then everybody you see, it's like, oh yeah, of course you are. - How's the rest of the world doing? - Oh, fuck. - It's pretty tragic. - True, true. - That's what it is, I guess.

- Money talks. - Exactly, exactly. - What have you guys been doing in the meantime? You guys been traveling around? You been doing anything interesting before lockdown? - Before lockdown, for when we could travel in the little bits that we could. We recently just went camping. - I know, I said I couldn't come. I had other plans that I did really far in advance and I was like, wait, shit, I wanted to come camping with the boys.

me and like four of our friends went camping in the mountains of Shizuoka. - Yeah, it was my first experience camping in Japan.

- Definitely was a very different experience. If you've never been camping before, I recommend you go camping in Japan 'cause it is like Mario Kart baby mode camping. - Yeah, it really is. - You roughly described to me, but you're saying there's like electricity. - Okay, okay. So let me tell you about this, right? So I've only been camping, I think once or twice else in my life. Okay, so- - Wait, I have to ask one question. Did you get like a lot?

- What's that? - Like a square. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - We had to book it. - We had to book a lot. So my only other experience camping has been just like in the middle of the fucking fields. Like I went on like a trip in Colorado where we just like rode horses for eight hours and we camped literally in the middle of like the woods in Colorado. That was like, that was what I thought. - That sounds fucking fantastic. - It was fucking great. I thought it was gonna be something similar. So I'm not that experienced camping so I asked,

I asked the boys, so what should I be bringing? And so they give me the usual sleeping bags, tents, warm clothes and everything. And also like a power bank to charge your phone.

So I came in with the expectations of, I need to buy a big fucking power bank 'cause we're not gonna have any power there. - Yeah, yeah. And we were camping for like two days. - Yeah, yeah. - This episode is sponsored by Bokksu. - Boys, get those disgusting American chips out of here because this episode is sponsored by Bokksu, an authentic Japanese snack bar subscription that sends you small delicious treats from Japan.

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- So use our link and code TRASHTASTE10 in the description to get 10% off your own box suit now. Repeat customers get a theme box every month. Back to the episode. - So a friend of mine, he has this thing called like the Omni Charge. I can't remember the full name, but it looked like a fucking battle station. I remember he-

- It's kind of like that. - Yeah, yeah. But like it was way bigger than any of the portable chargers I've ever seen. And also like what sold me was that it had its own plug. So you can plug like- - Like an AC adapter. - Yeah, so you can plug an actual like power adapter to it, right? So I was like, I want something like that for a camping trip, right? So I asked Edo, "Oh, what's this thing called?" So he calls, he says it's the Omni charger. So I Google it on Amazon and unfortunately they're not selling on Amazon anymore.

So I go to like the first link that's recommended for like that search. And here's the thing about Amazon is that you see a charger, right? There's nothing to like quantify how big this charger is, right? - Just from the image. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I mean, there's some with dimensions, but you might not look at them. - Yeah, sometimes it's like buried in a wall of like text. - Yeah, it's buried in a wall of text. So I just see this block.

And I'm just like, it's probably around the same. I mean, it's recommended from me searching the Omni charger. So it's probably about the same size, right? It's probably around the same size. I actually like thinking back, like being like an electronic and electrical ex electronic and electrical engineer, got a masters. I should have seen like the amount of like charge it holds. But I didn't look at the amount of charge it holds. I just, I would just like on like,

I'm like, "I'm fucking autopilot mode." I'm just like, "Okay, that looks good. Buy that." Okay. So I wait a few days for all my camping equipment that I bought and this fucking massive package like- - I wish you brought it with you today. - I wish I did. I wish I did. This massive package gets delivered to my door and I'm all right. Everything's like boxed up so I don't know what everything is. So the first thing I pick up

It's fucking heavy. It's this fucking brick. And my first thought was, oh no, have I bought like a sleeping bag that's just like 10 times heavier than I need it? - You're right, right. - And so I start unboxing it and I see this fucking brick just in my hands, right?

And I'm just like, what the fuck is this? I don't remember buying anything this heavy. Turn it around and it's the fucking charger. And I'm like, no way. This must be a mistake. So Joey has a photo. It's on screen right now. The photo of this brick that I got. I turn it around. I look at like the appliances that it can power. And it's just like, okay, so this can power phones.

It can, you know, charge tablets. And then it says it can charge laptops. It can power a fucking mini fridge. Right?

And I'm just like, you can power a mini fridge, a microwave. And I'm just like, oh shit. What the fuck have I bought? This thing he bought it literally is like, oh, I found it. So this is like a fucking brick that I bought. Two routers strapped together. Yeah. And I'm just like, what the fuck am I? It's like a Mac mini. I don't know what I'm going to be able to do with this. Cause like, I can't take that on a plane. Cause like, if I take it on a plane, the TSA probably thinks I'm going to bomb the

- I'm gonna get fucking arrested on that plane. - Like I'm probably gonna be put on the fucking ISIS list if I take this on a plane. Jesus Christ, so I can't even, so I'm just thinking to myself, all right,

I've made, guys, I've made a mistake, but it's okay. 'Cause at least I can use it on this camping trip. So like I lugged this massive fucking brick in my suitcase or in my bag, sorry, which is probably like by itself, the heaviest single object in my bag for a camping trip. And so we get to this campsite

And we get a lot and we start unpacking everything. And I see this metal box, right? I see this metal box. And I was just like, what the fuck is that metal box? My first thought was, oh, it's probably like a safe they provided, right? 'Cause I hear about some American campsites having like bear safes or something. So I was thinking, oh, it might be a safe or something. And so I was like, Nabi, what's that? And he's just like, just wait, Garnt, let me show you. He opens it up and it's a fucking power outlet.

- Two power outlets just sticking out like that. I'm just like, oh yes, camping with my power out. - Yeah, right? - And I'm just like, so wait, there's literally no fucking reason for me to buy this fucking brick and lug this around. I can't take it anywhere. Can't take it on a plane. And apparently it's useful for a camping trip. What the fuck do I need this for? - You literally, I looked at that thing and I'm like, that's what people use for like emergencies. Like when like-

your house is flooded and you have no electricity. And like, this is the thing. - I'm just saying if Japan sinks ever happens, I'm fucking sorted, man. - You are like the top of the hierarchy. Like people can be fighting. - Like a flood light. - I remember the first night he like charged his phone. Well, he was like, I might as well use this fucking thing I bought. So he charged his phone. It was like a hundred percent. Next morning, phone is fully charged, 97%.

He used 3% of his charge to power his phone. I'm like, this thing could last you like literally like two months. - Yeah, I literally bought it just so I could recharge my phone during the duration of the camping trip. - Doesn't it have its own like ventilation like fan inside of it? - I knew he was like fucking way too overkill. When I opened it up, it had a vent that had like a fan. - He turned it on and literally started going.

- So 3% power of the fucking fan probably. - Yeah. - 1% when you charge your fucking phone.

- It's so funny. - Yeah, but like I've been camping quite a bit in Australia. Like my dad and I used to go camping all the fucking time. - I don't wanna fucking camp on a power outlet, what the fuck? - Yeah, exactly. But like, I realized, okay, Japan does not know how to go camping because like it really is baby mode on Mario Kart. - So we saw some of like, so like we had like some relatively small tents, right? - Did you have neighbors? - Yeah, we had neighbors. - Oh my God. - Yeah, that's the thing that really put me off. 'Cause I thought we were just- - But it was one lot apart, so there was social distancing.

- It was one lot of part, it was social distancing. - Are you kidding me? - I bet they could fucking hear you fart. - Yeah, exactly, probably. - One thing I learned about a tent is that it's just not noise proof at all. You can hear fucking everything. Literally, I remember we were sleeping and I could hear like the other tent fucking farting in the background. And I'm just like, okay, who was that? Was that you Naby? Okay, whatever. But like some of these tents that these people bought, they weren't fucking tents. So some of our neighbors, right?

One lot, like two lots down from us, they start unpacking this tent, right? And then this tent has fucking compartments, right? And then not only that, I remember walking past, they had an entrance, right? They had an entrance that had lights on the entrance, okay? - Like fairy lights. - And this tent had like two fucking bedrooms, a living room. - Oh, my parents had a tent then like that.

- Yeah, and has that even a tent though? - It's like a family tent. - It's just a pop-up apartment. - Yeah, but it's like a family tent. - I'm just like, this isn't a tent, this is a two LDK. - Bro, those tents are a fucking nightmare to shut up. - Yeah, well, but that's the thing, right? It's like, I get it if it was a family, but this was a car.

- This is a couple. - Yeah, that's ridiculous. - Yeah, and like their tent- - Well, it's 'cause you're a Japanese couple, so naturally you're not gonna sleep in the same bed. - No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

- That makes sense if it's three weeks. - They stayed for a single night and like, okay, so here's like the- - A single night? - Yeah, a single night. - They came with us and they left the same day. - So here's the premium Japanese couple experience that I saw, right? So we walked past this tent, right? And of course this Japanese couple

you know, obviously very intimate Japanese couple to be going on a camping trip by themselves together. - Very intimate. - Very intimate. So the peak Japanese couple experience was seeing the guy next to his car on a fucking gamer chair or something. And then seeing the girl on the other side of this massive tent on a hammock, both of them by themselves, not interacting.

- Premium Japanese couple experience. - I mean, isn't that love? Knowing when to ignore each other. - Yeah, that's love. - No, I mean, I say it's a premium Japanese couple experience because the amount of times we've gone to like onsens or ryokans or something and it's just like us, the boys, and we're just surrounded by Japanese couples. - They don't talk to each other. - Not talking to each other. - They don't talk to each other. - Just not interacting with each other. - Couples that social distance together stay together, you know?

They're just social distancing, yeah? But like one part I couldn't fucking believe was with wood fire, right? So you had to like go to, or I mean they had the option to go to like the reception quote unquote where you could buy

pre-cut wood fire. - Yeah, that's normally how it is. - They don't want you just fucking picking shit up around the area. - Right, but like the thing is- - I mean, that's what we can do. - That's what we did. Because each bundle was like 500 yen. Maybe for like a bundle.

- It wasn't about the price. - It wasn't about the price because like this wood, because it's like pre-cut and clean and dry, this thing burns through like so fucking quickly. And I'm like, we're here for the entire day. We want this fire to keep going the entire day, right? This thing is not gonna last us the entire day. So I just said, fuck it. And I just like went out into the bush and just grabbed some wood

And Afraid Nabi had a hatchet and I'm like, give me that shit. Just fucking started like deforesting this fucking forest. - Fucking Dijon deforest. - No, no, no, we wouldn't deforest the forest. They were already like- - It's like bits of dead trees on the ground. - Bits of dead trees on the ground that we just cut up.

- I didn't cut down any trees. - Joey starts just fucking animal crossing the fucking campsite. - To emphasize, we didn't cut off any trees. We just cut off like some branches that had fallen down. - We cut the logs into like sizable pieces. - Yeah, and brought them back to our campsite because that to me is the camping experience, right? We're out in the wilderness.

- You're like out here in like a fucking swimming pool, treating it like bear grills. - That's the thing, it's like- - We wanted to make the most out of it, honestly. - We wanted to make the most of it. - 'Cause it was like, otherwise we would have had to spend like a hundred bucks for firewood. I'm like, fuck that. - I mean, it's not about the hundred bucks of firewood because it's just like-

- It's not about the money, Joey. It's about the experience. - It is about the experience. - Exactly. The most amount of fun I had was going out into the bush, picking up some like dead trees and just bringing it back and just chopping the shit out of it. That was the most fun. - Honestly, I'd be so fucking bored if I turned up and I got like 10 neighbors, we gotta power out.

- Yeah, and it's like pre-packaged. It's like, here you go, here's all the things you need. Go have fun. - Go fucking microtransactions with your camping experience, man. Probably like bring you food if you want to. I know some camping trips actually bring you meat.

- And a grill if you want to have food in there. - I'm like, just stay at a hotel. - The best part about camping is when you all turn up and then your one mate is like, "Boys, I brought bacon." And everyone's like, "Yes, let's go!" - Exactly. - "He brought fucking perishable foods, what an idiot, but it works." I mean, in the UK, there's a lot of places you can just kind of ask them, you're like, "Hey, can I camp on your land?" And they were like, "Yeah, sure." Stuff like that. There's a lot of places where you can camp like that. - I mean, in Australia, there's designated camping areas, but it's- - That's good.

- First come first serve. If it's full, then fuck off somewhere else. - Is there a place like that in Japan or is it all just regulated campsites? - It's all regulated. - Yeah. - Yeah. - I mean, it was fine for the experience it was, but I definitely preferred the camping experience I had in other countries 'cause it just kind of didn't feel like camping, you know? - I mean, there was that other couple next to us that brought a fucking TV.

- Honestly, I'd do it. I'd do it too. - And they were like playing Smash Bros or whatever the fuck it was. I'm like, just like, why are you even camping dude? - I mean, if you've got a fucking plug, why not bring the 50 inch? - I guess so. - Why not bring the 50 inch of rock? - Yeah, I guess so. It's ridiculous. I was like, you'd think that these guys have been like permanently living there with how much shit they have. - I mean, I'd be tempted to bring like, you can get those like really shitty, like 19 inch battery powered monitors. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Bring that, you know,

- But there is nothing, the thing is like, because I've had a pretty fucking stressful week 'cause of the whole move thing. So it's just so nice to just sit down and look at a fire for 12 hours and literally drink and talk about nothing. It was the best fucking experience I had. - That is the best part. - Because like- - Wait, who set up the tents?

- We all did. - Did you really? Did you all? - No, we all did. We all did. - Really? 'Cause most of the time it's we all did. It's like I watched the other guys. - Well, our tents really weren't that complicated. 'Cause our tent was literally just like a triangle. One of those fucking pyramid tents. - It wasn't a fucking inflatable apartment. - It wasn't a two bedroom apartment. - When I was like 15, I had the ones where you like, you fucking throw it in the air and it just .

- Yeah, like Nabi had one of those as well. - Yeah, very good. - But like ours- - It's a pain in the ass to fold up though. - Yeah. - Yeah. Ours was a bit more complicated and we still somehow fucked it up because, so our 10 was like, it's like not pre, I mean, it's kind of is prebuilt, but we kind of have to like strengthen the support, what are the support beams that it comes with, right?

- What are they called? Like the structure. - Poles. - Yeah, the poles. - Poles. - The bone structure. - I don't fucking know what it is. - Just poles. Just fucking poles.

- It wasn't a pole 'cause it was like part of the tent, right? So this tent came with like support beams that like supported the structure, right? - It's not fucking poles. - It's baby mode. - Like I said, baby mode tent mode. We literally didn't have to do anything. We just had to like fucking, well, we thought we didn't have to do anything, right? 'Cause it all kind of like unfolded and we like put it up. All we had to do was like put the pegs down. We thought, great, job done. We didn't know it was job done because when we were trying to sleep, when we were,

me and Joey were trying to sleep, just kept caving in, right? - Because it was also windy as fuck. - It was a windy ass night. - It was insanely windy. - It was a windy ass night. So every like fucking hour I'd get woken up by this tent just caving in and I just have to like bring the support pole up again. I'm just like, oh for fuck sake. I could hear Joey was like having trouble sleeping as well.

- I did not sleep at all that night. - And it was only when we were packing up that we took the cover off and I was just like, at the top of the support beam, there was this label that said push. I was like, why does this label say push? And I push it down and I just hear click.

and everything is solid as fuck. - It's like Transformers, everything just clicked into place. - I just hear this click and I was like, "What was that click?" And then I tried to push in the support beam. - Did you not read the manual or anything? - No. - No.

- Clearly, clearly we should have. - I mean, it was a tent. - I'll just give it a quick like, you know, - Well, because like, I'm not used to tents like that. I'm used to the ones where you have to like kind of connect the poles together and do it yourself, right? So I was like, oh cool, this is- - Who bought the tents? - Oh, Naby did. - Oh, okay. - So I was like, oh, I've never seen this kind of tent, but it seems easy enough. It literally just pops out. - For some reason, whenever you fucking do your friend's tent, it's like the biggest piece of shit ever. It's like,

It's like your tent pristine, brand new. Your friend's tent is literally like falling apart. The poles don't fucking connect. They're rusty as fuck. It's like, what do you do to this tent? How did you put it in this bad condition? - I don't know. - I always had that. - Yeah, but like that night it was so fucking windy. I mean the day before it was so fucking raining that

we were just like, we're not camping out there. It's like a torrential thunderstorm out there. So we just went to like a nearby Diorcon. But the next day though, when we actually went camping, it was fucking great. - Yeah, it was a great experience. - I remember the next day, Aki was like, "So what did you guys talk about?" And I just sat there and I was like, "Fuck, what did I talk about?" - What's talked about in camping stays in camp. - Exactly. - Don't have to risk that. - It was clearly so unimportant that it didn't even retain in my memory. 'Cause all I remember is, "Ooh, a fire burn."

That's all I remember from that camping trip. - The caveman instincts come out. - I remember trying to start a fire for like a full hour. 'Cause like Nabi bought these flints and I'm just like, guys, guys, we've got a power outlet. - He's like in a big grill. - Just get a fucking outlet. - And Edo the entire time was standing there with a blowtorch and he's just like.

- Ready when you are gone. - Why does he have a blow torch? You fucking creme brulee on the campsite? What's going on? - So there's just me like huddled around these like

there's fucking moss trying to set that on fire. I'm like, I try setting like so many, like I try like getting some YouTube tutorials out. I try this for like a full fucking hour. - It's just fucking torrential rain the day before, so all the wood's gonna be wet. - And meanwhile, I'm just like sitting there, I'm like my gamer champ, just playing Firestarter. It's like, go on, you got it. You got it, mate? - Oh my God. - I just wanted to play Bear Grylls, man. I'm sorry. - It was almost scary how enthusiastic Garnt was to start a fire. He was just like, ha ha.

- You make it sound like I'm a fucking casual arsonist. - No, we got there, we got there, right? And we were like, all right, let's figure out what we're gonna do. All right, we gotta set up a tent, you know, blah, blah, blah. All right, everybody help get all the stuff out. And Garnet's just kind of standing there like,

I just can't wait to start a fire. - That's how people become arsonists. - Come on, come on, come on. Let's not pretend that the start of a camping trip is always when you are able to first start a fire. - No, of course. - That's how you know the camping trip has begun, right? - But I knew from how enthusiastic you were. - Lighting stuff on fire. - I knew from how enthusiastic Garnt was to start the fire. I was like, if I let this man start a fire, he's not gonna do anything.

He's gonna stay next to that fire fueling that bitch for like 12 hours. - Who the fuck enjoys building a tent? Like no one does.

No one actually enjoys building a tent. It's fiddly as fuck. Far off the time you're trying to figure out how the instruction manuals work because they're like- - You mean the instruction manual we didn't read? - Exactly, right? 'Cause it's a fucking pain in the ass to try and figure out like, somehow, somehow they've picked the images that make it like the least legible and like the least understandable to like figure out how to like build this tent. - Sounds like you took the monkey brain on the trip.

I didn't need to come. There was already monkey brain there. - Garnt was very monkey brain around that fire. He was like, "I need to feed him more." - I was single-handedly fueling that fire for like 12 hours. This fire went on for like 12 hours and I was the one like fueling it every time. - Yeah. It's like, I don't have to do anything. Garnt's just like assistant right here, just like fueling it more. - We need to look for like an actual place where we can camp with like,

- Like legit camp. - Like legit camp? I don't know if we'll be able to find that. - No power outlets. - I don't know if we'll be able to find that in Japan. - I'm sure we can find it. - What was your camping experience like in England? - In England, I didn't really go much in England. I went around like France mainly. A lot of the time in France though, it was like campsites like that. - Who'd you camp with? - My family for the most part, but then obviously 'cause we're in Wales, so it was really easy to just camp for a weekend. And it was normally you were just like in a farmer's land,

in like some fucking random field. - Oh, like land that someone owns? - Yeah. - Oh. - 'Cause they'd always know someone. You could just be like, "Oh, can we camp?" And maybe it'd be like a 10 hour night. - Okay. - 'Cause they didn't really want anything. They were just like, "Don't just leave a mess. Just clean everything up." - Oh. 'Cause you can't do that in Australia. It needs to be in like a national reserve. - No, no.

- We could do whatever you want on the land. So, and normally you're right next to woods and stuff. So obviously there's no power outlets or anything and you're probably a decent walk away from the car that you came in. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - So yeah, it was just good fun though. I mean, you just normally just set up the tent. If you can get a fire going, go ahead. But it might be raining a fuck ton and you might just have to start drinking beers in the tent. Like four of you squished in this tent like, "How you guys doing? All right, nice. Someone wanna boil the kettle? Get some pot noodles going." Whatever you do. We did like,

- Duke of Edinburgh as well, we did that. - Oh yeah. - That was good fun as well. - Yeah, because in Japan, you can't even like put a fire on the ground. You need this like fire hole. - You need to buy like a fire pit. - Well, 'cause sometimes in some places you have to clean up after yourself and it was easier to just bring something that you could wrap like all the ash in. - Right. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Which is like, I think we did that a few times. 'Cause if you have to clean it up, sometimes it's an absolute pain in the ass getting rid of all this ash. - Well, because in Australia, all you did was just dig a hole.

And then once you were done with the ash, you just fill up that hole again. - I mean, it's good for the land, but I mean, sometimes you can't do that in some places. - True, true, true. - But yeah, I mean, it's whatever. I just kind of like, it was never more than like two nights. It was always like a night. Put the tent up, kind of get drunk.

- Eat a lot of bacon in the morning, bacon sandwiches. - Two nights I feel is like the optimal camping time. - Yeah, I'd say so. Two nights is about right for- - It depends, 'cause you need something to do the second day. 'Cause the first night you're setting up, you're having a few drinks. What do you do during the whole second day before you start drinking? You can't immediately start drinking beers at like 11.

I mean, that's what we did. - That's kind of what we did. - I mean, I guess you can, but then there's someone like driving, right? I don't know. I mean, I kind of want to do something. I don't know. - Yeah. Well, that's when you can bring the TV and connect it to the power hour. - Yeah. - Well, 'cause it's like- - It's like, who's got the switch? - 'Cause if you go camp with British people, you know, and there's like four of you, like a 24 pack, sorry, I spat so much there.

- A 24 pack won't last like more than a night. - That's true. - You know what I mean? So it's like, how much beer are you bringing along for this thing, right? You can't do day drinking. That's like, you need like 40 beers at least for that whole experience. But I mean, that's why I like doing something.

- We brought like a pack of cards and like, you know, that kind of stuff. I mean, we never cracked them open. - We just left them there for like decoration. - I was just having too much fucking fun with the fire. - I was on fire duty the entire day. - I was like, he's like way too enthusiastic about the fire. - Is this fire burning like 24/7? - Yeah.

- It was burning for like a good like 14 hours. - Jesus Christ, go on. - Just because we fucking adventured out and got all the wood, right? That was half the fun. - What did you do the second day? So you slept in the tent the first night. - No, no, no, we didn't sleep in the tent the first night because we got there like super, super early on the second day because we,

- The first day was raining like crazy. - Yeah, the first day we missed the day of camping, so we did what anyone do and just had a nice day at an onsen and slept with a nice roof over our heads. And then we just went there the second day and we just basically stayed there all day. - Yeah, we got there like 9:00 AM or something. Like super early in the morning. So it was like a full, full day. - I was in like the area near you and the storm was fucking brutal. - Oh yeah, I mean the storm in Tokyo was brutal as well. - Yeah, yeah. - I don't know.

I was kayaking and then I was on the ocean kayaking. And then the guy who was with us was like, "Oh, there's a storm coming." And I was like, "I can fucking hear it." Like rumbling everywhere. And then suddenly I'm just kayaking, just chilling, nice weather.

and then suddenly out of nowhere, like torrential rain starts pouring down. Will not stop. It's fucking freezing as well, man. It was like, I literally felt like I was at the Shawshank Redemption when he's crawling through the tunnel of shit. Was that like the rain? It was like that bad. And I'm like, I feel like I'm crawling through the shit trying to get back to shore 'cause I'm freezing right now. And I'm fucking like, ah! Wish I was camping instead at that point. But it was really good fun kayaking until that started. It was good fun. - I haven't been kayaking. I've never been kayaking in the,

I've been kayaking on like rivers and lakes and stuff like that, but I don't think I've ever been kayaking in the ocean. - It's good to chill. - It seems a lot scarier. - Something about the ocean just scares me. You know?

I mean, like the ocean is just scary, right? It's a scary place. - Like normally a lot of these things, you know, unless you own your own kayak and stuff, you can't just go and do it. If you're renting, there's normally always a guide who comes with you. - Oh yeah. - Make sure you don't fucking drown. - But if it's a lake, like fucking, you know, whatever. - Yeah, because I was in like a group with a bunch of Japanese people and like one of them just like capsized. I'm like, how the fuck did you manage that?

- Probably did it on purpose. - He just flipped his boat and was like in the middle of the ocean. I'm like, how the fuck is he gonna get back in? He got back in somehow, but my God, that man must've been freezing. And I had my phone on me as well. I was like, I'm not capsizing. - Yeah, fuck that. - You put your phone on you? - Yeah, I was like- - On a kayaking trip in the middle of the fucking ocean? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, I sent you a picture of the snake.

- Oh, that was on the ocean. - I was on the ocean. So I was like going, we were kayaking past like rocks and like, so you would hold this, like I was doing this kind of thing where you could kayak around like rocks. And like you go through like caves and stuff kayaking. And there was just this like fucking snake just chilling like some kind of like, this is like the entrance to death. And I was like, fuck, get a quick fucking 4K pic of that.

I ripped out my phone and started taking pics. - Caught in 4K. - Yeah, caught in 4K. Caught a fucking snake. Yeah, it was good fun. But yeah, I wish I could go camping with you guys. - Well, I mean, yeah, we definitely want to go. But I mean, Garnt and I still have all the stuff with us. So I'm just like, we definitely want to do that again. - You gonna get a driving license now, Garnt? - Yeah, honestly, this camping trip single-handedly convinced me to get a driving license. 'Cause we were,

- The drive to this campsite was fucking beautiful. We were driving up these mountains. - The weather was perfect. - Dude, the moment you leave Tokyo, the views get insane. So it's like, you always wanna drive in Japan 'cause you're like, I can't wait to see the views. All of the service stations are amazing. The food you can get at the service stations here are insane. When you stop at the service stations in the UK, I don't know about America, on motorways or what are they called in the US?

- Highways? - Highways. You know, when you stop at them to break, it's like what? Like McDonald's, KFC. It's like, I don't wanna stop. When you stop in Japan, it's like, you can get like- - Oh, the service area. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can get like ramen, curry, sushi, all like fresh as fuck. And it's so good. And it's like, well, of course I wanna stop because I wanna get my coffee. - The one we stopped at had like a full on like fucking, it was like a mall. - Yeah. - It was nuts. - At the service area. - And you get really good fucking food. - Yeah. - That's 'cause like,

- Sushi, ramen, all that. That's just fast food here, right? - It's crazy. It's such good quality as well. Like I'm out here and there's like a Yoshinoya at the service station. I'm like, it's 10:00 AM. I'm gonna have a Yoshinoya beef bowl. Let's go.

- Yeah, the one we stopped at had like a fucking like Starbucks and like, yeah, like a whole, like it was almost like an anime shop, wasn't it? - Oh yeah, yeah. - That was selling like anime goods randomly. - They were selling like initial D merch. - It's so good. You stop, you get that fat meal, you grab that coffee, you start playing the music on the car. You're literally driving,

with the Mount Fuji view clear as day, fuck you, Chris. It's great. You can't beat it. - Yeah, we got an insane view of Fuji. - 'Cause that's the thing about Japan, right? Like everything here is so aesthetic.

- Even looking at Mount Fuji, you look at Mount Fuji and I'm just like, man, God really pat himself on the back when he made that man. Jesus Christ, Mount Fuji is just like- - My finest work. - Mount Fuji, you talk about Mount Everest or whatever being the highest mountains or something. Fuji is the most photogenic mountain. - It is the most picturesque mountain.

- 100%, yeah. - It's like the best spot as well. - Yeah. - It's so good, man. And then like everyone's so nice driving on the expressways and stuff here and like not the roads, like it's so chill. - It's pretty hard to find like an asshole driver in Japan. - Yeah, everyone's so nice. I was like, no, no, you go ahead. Everyone's really nice, you know? It's super chill driving. It's like driving easy mode and you get like all the best.

- Everything's baby mode here, man. - So now Garnt, you gotta go through the hell of getting your license changed. - Yeah, that's the thing. Like I didn't have a reason to drive or to want to drive and now I do because- - And then the quicker you get it as well, you can get rid of those fucking rookie things that they have on there. - Rookie things? - Yeah. - Oh, the stickers. - Yeah, for the first year when you get your license, even though you've driven in other countries, you have to get these like rookie stickers on your front and back. - It's like a provisional kind of sticker. - Yeah, I don't like it.

- It was a pain having to remember them all the time. Bring them along with you. You're like, "Oh, sorry, gotta bring my stickers. "Gotta put them on." Sorry, I interrupted you. - I can't remember what I was saying. But I guess the only thing I remember is like, I am not looking forward to doing more paperwork, which is what I'm gonna be doing a lot of this year. - Japan is like the never ending cesspool of paperwork. - Get the paperwork done when it's not stressful. So that when you-

- That doesn't happen. That's a trick question. - If you got shit happening, you're busy, the last thing you wanna do is lose a day. Like if you have the time to lose a day, do it now when you can, right? Like that's why I did it. - Bold of you to assume that we just have a day to lose. - I don't have a day, but I had a day where like it wasn't that bad if I lost it. 'Cause like, you know, when I eventually move,

at the end of the year, it's gonna be fucking hell. And I'm not gonna wanna lose a day. - It's gonna be more than a day. - It's not about losing a day. It's about losing a day to paperwork. - It's never gonna be good, so just fucking do it. - I know, I mean, it's just finding, not even the motivation, but just like,

- Every time I wake up, I'm just like, maybe today's the day and today's never the day. - There's like a Denny's near the place as well. So you should be fine. There's like a Coco's diner. - Yeah, exactly. - This episode is sponsored by GamerSupps. - One word, gamers. Two words, GamerSupps.

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- Ages ago. - Ages ago, yeah. - I don't think we talked about that on the podcast yet. - I don't think we have, no. - 'Cause I couldn't go to that one. - Yeah, it was my very first experience snowboarding. - How was that? - It was, okay, so this, obviously I went before, like we remembered that the reason I wanted to try out snowboarding was

purely because of SSX Tricky and Snowboard Kids on the N64. But yeah, I had the choice between going snowboarding and going skiing and I'm just like 100% snowboarding. - I want that SSX Tricky. - 'Cause everyone told me that it's like way harder to start snowboarding. Like beginners find it easier to ski, but it's like harder to master. Whereas snowboarding is,

harder to get into, but easier to master. From what I've heard. - Roughly, I think that's true. - Yeah, and I guess like, so my first experience snowboarding was that it was okay. I didn't realize how much I took for granted friction in my life. Okay. Like I- - How so Garnt? How so? - How so? - Like I remember the first time, so we got all dressed up. I put on all the kits and everything.

put on the snowboards on like one shoe or one foot or however you lock yourself in. And then, so my first mission was to walk from where I put my snowboard on to the ski lift. I remember trying to take my first step, immediately slip and I was just like, this is a bit of a challenge, isn't it? Wait, so you're telling me I'm gonna have to go down a fucking hill when I can't even take a single step? - Because it's the type of movement you need

- I never do otherwise. - It just seems, it's so unnatural. And so I fucking waddle my way over to the ski lift. - Did you have your snowboard on or is it like you're carrying a snowboard? - No, I had my snowboard on. - I think you had the one boot in, right? - Oh, you had the one boot in? - I had the one boot in, right? 'Cause we walked over to like- - Kind of hobbling like that. - Yeah, we walked over to the beginner ski lift and I was with Sydney and Maylin and Maylin's partner.

- And- - I think it was not a good time. - Yeah, Meilyne wasn't having a good time either. So only one of us knew how to snowboard. And so only one of us was like showing us how it was done. And Meilyne knows how to ski, but this was her first time trying to snowboard either as well. So we were, at least I had like a fellow novice with me.

- I'm not the only one. - And so we waddle over to this ski lift, right? And so to go through the gates, we have to like, you know, scan ourselves in, right? And I'd like, the problem with being like having this big snowboard on you is that once I start like taking a step, sometimes I don't know how to stop.

So there was this fucking kid in front of me. There was this kid, fucking pro snowboarder, like easily go through the gates. I like go through the gate, take my first step and I swear to God, I almost fall on this kid. I almost took out this fucking five year old in front of me. - Frankly had it coming. - Luckily, like luckily Mackie just like grabbed me before like I fell on this kid. I was like,

- God, at this point I hadn't even got onto the ski lift. And so- - That's the first step, isn't it? - That's the first step. - I was on my way and I was texting Garnt like, "How's it going? How's it going?" He's like, "It's hard." - It's hard. - It's fucking hard. - It's really, it's really- Wait, when was that? - You went down by yourself. - Oh yeah, I tumble a lot of times. We'll get to that.

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- It's really difficult to fall face first with skis. - Yeah. - How the fuck are you gonna do that? Snowboard is very easy. - Oh yeah. It's almost guaranteed you're gonna fall face first on a snowboard. - Yeah, so, okay. So I waddle my way to the ski lift and I've never, obviously this is my first time on a ski lift. I've never like, I don't know what the right technique is or like how to like, 'cause you don't think

- You think about this thing, right? You think walking, easy. One foot forward, next foot forward. It was like I was a baby trying to figure out how to walk again. So I'm like, it's taking like all of my mental energy just to figure out how to stay on two feet. And then I, so the person tells me to like, go to this point here where the ski lift is going to go and like take you up.

And I'm just thinking, this is like, I've never panicked before trying to figure out how to waddle literally one meter forward. - To be fair, it was pretty bit mean of him to make you get on a fucking ski lift first thing. You should have just gone, like walked up the hill a little bit and just try to go down. - Or at least get on the ski lift holding your snowboard.

- Yeah. - Can you do that? - Yes, you can do that. - But clearly no one told you that you could do that. - Millions Husband was like, nah, trial by fire will be the option I think. - Okay, I didn't, yeah, I literally didn't know that was an option. - Normally, yeah, you are supposed to, with like beginners on snowboard, what you make them do is you just kind of make them walk up a hill

- Yeah. - Like a very, very like not steep hill. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Just kind of make them like go down straight. Like horizontal. - Horizontal, yeah. - Perpendicular, sorry. - Yeah. - To the slope.

That was very much a wow, okay. - Mike is like, fuck that, on the ski lift right now. - So I was kind of like a fucking animal looking over the edge being like, okay, gotta go, gotta go. No, don't wanna go. Okay, let's go now. And so I'm like, I say a waddle. This was like me trying to fucking ice skate over to like one meter ahead of me and just stay still enough for the ski lift to like lift my butt up and go up.

Managed to do that luckily without any big massive incidents. - But then comes the next step. - But then. - How do you get down? How do you get off it? - I was having a great time. I was like, okay, you know what? This fucking slaps. Look at this view. Look at this. I'm having a great fucking time. It's like being on a roller coaster. When you're going up and you're just enjoying the view, it's peaceful. I'm just like, okay, I can get into snowboarding.

- I can get into snowboarding. - I can get into snowboarding. This is pretty cool. And then I see where the exit is and it gets closer and closer and then it slowly dawns on me. - How do I get off?

- How do I exit this seat that I'm currently sitting on right now? And I see the kid in front of me gets off no problem at all. And I'm just like, that looks easy. That looks easy. I just use the momentum that the seat is carrying me through and I just get off and just slide off. And I'm just like, cool. I'm like shadow boxing. 'Cause I'm just like visualizing this in my head.

how hard can this possibly be? How hard can this possibly be? - This is like gone in the shower, psyching yourself up. - I was literally psyching myself up. And I was just like, sure, I can do that. If a five-year-old kid can do it, then I can do it. And so literally the first thing that happens is,

the lift goes up, it starts slowing down. I'm like, brilliant. I'm not even gonna need to do this at full speed. It's going at like 0.1 meters per second. - They're gonna fucking launch you off. - I had no idea, right? I thought you just had to use momentum, just ski off. I had no fucking clue. But honestly, I think I would have preferred that because now,

I had zero momentum and I'm just like, shit, how do I position my feet, right? And by the time I get to the point where I need to get off, I hadn't figured out how I was gonna do this. So literally the first thing that happens is I just like,

I put both feet down. I literally tried to- - Horizontal. - Huh? - Horizontal. - Like that. - Yeah, like that. So I was just like, I was like, okay. So I was like- - First mistake. - I was like, okay, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put both feet down, twist, and then put one of my foot on the snowboard and just lightly and just breezily just like slide down. - Yeah. - So obviously that didn't work out. - Right, yeah.

what I did was I put first two feet down, stood up, immediate face plant. - Because there's this thing behind you that's pushing you forward. So you're just gonna go.

- Yeah, you gotta like shimmy to the side like this. - Yeah, you gotta shimmy like that and then kind of go down like that. - You know, it would be nice if someone was there to teach me how it was done. - I would not have done that to you, if I was there. I would have told you how to have done it. - But the thing is, here's the thing, right? We apparently went on the beginner slope, right? - Biggest lie. - Yeah, that was like, there was no way that this was the fucking beginner slope.

And we found out afterwards on the second day, 'cause me and Meilin, we weren't having a great time trying to go down this slope. And apparently we found out the next day that there was a slope that was dedicated to like people's first time trying snowboarding. - Right, right, right. - No, we didn't go on that one. We went on the fucking beginner slope, which was people who had already been experienced enough to go down hills. - Right, right.

So it was me, Meilyne, Sydney and Marky on the top of this hill. Marky just fucking bolts down already. - Yeah. - Right? - Yeah, Marky was really fucking funny.

- I had like legitimately like frustrated. They were like bad. - Yeah. - It was very funny. - Just be good, just get good. - It was like, what do you mean? Just go down, just go down. Just go straight, it's not hard.

And Maki goes down first and tries to like goad the rest of us into going down. I'm just like, you know what guys? I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna do a pro gamer move and I'm just gonna go down. Immediately start tumbling fucking down. Like I must've like front flipped five fucking times going down. - Some like fucking loony tunes. - And I'm just like, oh.

"Damn, snow does..." Like in my mind, I thought snow is gonna cushion the fall. And I'm just like, "Man, this hurts way more than I thought it was going to do." - It does cushion, but like 30%. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Because all of the snow you're like snowboarding on has been like plowed, so it's compacted. - It's like jumping off your bed onto a very flat pillow.

It'll cushion you, but to what extent? I'm just like, I had this image in my mind that I was just like, ah, it's just like falling on- - I'm just gonna tumble in. - It's just like falling on clouds. And because of that, when I first went down, I did not hold back as well. I just like fucking went as fast as I can, not realizing that I didn't know how to break. And so quickly I kind of,

- Before I learned how to break, I quickly realized that the easiest way to break was just to fall down. - Oh yeah. I mean, that's what they teach you at first, right? Is like to fall down probably. - There's a reason why, like if you start young, particularly in skiing and snowboarding, you're gonna be really fucking, like you're gonna be so much better than somebody learned later on. Just because like when you're a kid, you're fearless. - Yeah, exactly. - Kids don't fucking know danger.

- No. - When I was a kid, I was going way too fast and I would just go straight down 'cause I was fucking stupid. And that's what like, I was just like, this is fun. I love going like a hundred miles per hour. This is a good idea.

That's how people die. - There is no danger here. - That's when you're an adult, it's a lot harder, but like, yeah. 'Cause you fall over once and you're like, "Holy shit, this hurts." - I'm not doing that again, fuck that. And so Malien and Sidney see me fucking tumbling down this hill. And then I look up and Marky's like, "All right, your turn now." And they're just like, "No."

- No, I don't think I will. And so they start like getting on their butts and just like- - Sliding down. - And just like slowly sliding down. And Marky's like, "No, come on guys, come on, get up. Just get up, get up." - I have to go, obviously 'cause I learned young and I was very fortunate, very lucky, very privileged to be able to learn how to ski and snowboard at a young age.

the one thing that kind of like, I don't mind doing it 'cause I'd rather go with my friends than not, but like it does suck having to wait like 30, 40 minutes. You go down a slope, takes you 30 seconds. You gotta wait 40 minutes for your friends to come down. And then you're like, right, let's go on the beginner one again. - So, so, so, so Meilyne and Sydney are literally psyching themselves up on this hill for like a good, like 40 minutes to an hour, right Meilyne? They were on this beginner hill. - It's like this.

- Oh, okay. - No, no, it was like that. - It was like that. - It might have felt like that, but it was probably like that. - Okay, all I knew was that I stood up for a second and I started going way faster than I was comfortable with. - That's called a hill. - Yeah, 'cause at the ski resort we were at, one of them, like the black diamond, one of them was like only 30 degrees. - It's not even that bad. - Which is like that.

- So realistically it was probably like five degrees. - Okay, I get it. 'Cause you can get a lot of, you can go pretty fast. - It feels like, especially when you're not used to that. - When you can see the bottom, it looks way worse than it is. - Yeah, 100%, 100%. - I don't know, man.

- Well, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. - It was the first time for you, so I get it. - The beginning of the hill was like quite steep, but then you go around to the middle part, which is the actual, which I feel was the actual beginner slope, right? Because this hill obviously wasn't even in like,

- What's the word I'm looking for? - Altitude. - Slope. - Slope. - Gradient. - Gradient, gradient. That's it. It wasn't equal in gradient. So like the best part to learn on this beginner hill was like right in like the middle of this course. - Oh, this is the part where he went like in like around like that. Like he did like a loop de loop.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So the best part to learn was actually in the middle part, which is how I learned how to like control my speed. - And turn. - Yeah, and turn. Because I had to like going down this hill for the first time, I had two speeds. It was go and tumble. That was the two speeds that I had. So I,

while waiting for Sydney and Nailin, went on YouTube and started like looking at some tutorials about- - How to snowboard. - On the slope. - Yeah, on the slope of that, how to snowboard. - I wanted to be that guy who like slides past you and I'm just like, what's this guy doing? Oh.

- Yeah, 'cause the thing about Marky is that he's a good snowboarder, but I don't think he knows how to explain how to snowboard. 'Cause I was asking Marky, Marky, what's the right technique to do this? - Yeah, he's very much just like, "Oh, just do it." - Just go. - Yeah, and he's very much just, "Oh, you just go like this and like this." You know that clip of that Australian surfer, or not Australian, but just that surfer who's just like, and he goes .

- And he appeared in, so appeared in. - That's kind of what I heard when Marky was trying to explain to me how to snowboard. It was just like, oh, you just go like this and then you turn like this and then you control your speed like this. And I'm just like, Marky, you're just like showing me like different angles here. This means nothing to me. - It sucks 'cause it's like, you have to learn to like put your body in the place where your body doesn't wanna naturally be. - Right, because you have to put all your weight in your front foot, which means you're gonna be leaning

into the hill, which- - Yeah, you lean into it, you don't wanna do it. - Just naturally, you don't do that. - Yeah, and then you're gonna throw your body from side to side with your back leg, and it's like,

- It is a weird move. - If you haven't done it before, it feels really unnatural, like initially, 'cause it's like, oh. - And that's why the first time, like after you finish the next day, oh, you fucking feel that, because you're using all these muscles you've never used before. - Yeah, we actually had the snowboarding trip for like two days, but I could only go one day. - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, 'cause second day you're fucked, right? - Oh, I was, I had never felt more fucked in my life.

- I feel that, yeah. - On this like beginner slope, I don't know which fucking sick fuck decided to do this, but I was like, that's funny, but also my God. On this beginner slope, right? It's like this very narrow kind of like a hill going down, like winding, right? And at the bottom of this wind, the exit to it, someone had put poles, like a big X,

But it was open, right? So you could go on it. But the only way that you could avoid these poles was to jump over them in the middle. - Or go under them. - Or go under them, which you weren't gonna do. So the gap to jump over was like this, which isn't much. But when you're a beginner, even if you're experienced- - Your board is not coming off the snow.

- It's hard to get, if you're not experienced doing any kind of jump on a snowboard, lifting your board up for a considerable amount of time is unnatural and hard to do. - They're heavy as well. - Yeah, it's heavy. It's like this, right? So there's no way you'll get, maybe like this, right? - Yeah, it was like that. - Off the ground. And so I was like, "All right, just jump over it, Garnt." So I went, I jumped over it and my board just clipped it a little bit. And I was like, "Oh shit." And I turn around, Garnt fucking jumps, just fucking jumps.

- Face plants. - I was like, I knew it was gonna happen, but it was funny. - This was late in the day when I was like, I was like trying, I was like starting- - He was getting the hang of it. - I was like starting to get the feel of this, right? And you know, I went to,

I went with the philosophy of just like, I'm just gonna fall down and hopefully I'll like learn something new every time I fall down. - Trial and fire, right? - Yeah, like there's only so many ways you can fall down before you figure out a way to not fall down, right? - Yeah, of course. - And so I remember seeing like, I remember seeing these crosses in the middle of like this course that I was going down with Connor.

And I was like, I fell down before and I was like, Connor, what do we do? Why do they have these here? - What is this? - Yeah, what is this? And they were like, I don't know, just fucking jump over it or go under it, right? 'Cause like there were two options. You can either like jump over it or you can like crouch super slow and like, or sleep super low and just go under it, right? It was-

It's like, you couldn't really crouch on that. You'd have to like lift them up and stop. I don't know why they were there. No one explained why they were there. The course opens, they shouldn't have been there. I'm not really sure. - I guess someone just forgot to put it away. - I think so. It was really weird, but I was like, "Sick, free jump test. Let's do it." - So I was like, by the time me and Connor were going down, I was getting confident with myself. I was like going a bit faster than I was before, you know, limit testing myself. And just as I did like this fucking sick turn, I was like,

- Fuck yes, it was amazing. - It was a pretty good turn. - I did like, I think the first clean turn of like my trip down. - Going front to like back. - And I heard Connor being like, "Oh dude, fuck yeah, that was clean." I was like, "Fuck yeah."

And then I see this X coming up, this pole coming up and I'm just like, all right, pro gamer time. I'm gonna attempt a pro gamer move. I was like- - Let me unlock 100% of my brain right now. - I saw Connor do it and I just had you,

- I saw Connor do it and I was like, you know that scene in the matrix where Morpheus just goes back to Neo and it's just like, all you need to do is believe. It's the jump test. And I'm just like, oh, okay, Morpheus, I can do this. Get close, immediately realize,

I've jumped way too late. - Just jumped into it. - It sounds like even jumping over it. I just fucking jumped straight into it. - Just face planted. It was so good. 'Cause I was basically just following Garnt with my face backwards up to, he must've been so creeped out. Just like going backwards down the slope like this. - Yeah. - Just checking, make sure what he was doing. I just watched him go into it. So fucking funny.

- I got Mackie back. I took Mackie down like this slope that was ridiculous. I was like, oh, 'cause they all stopped and Maylene quit. And I was like, all right, Mackie, let's go down. - For the record, Maylene and Sydney quit 'cause they're weak.

- No, what? May Lin, no it wasn't. - May Lin came back the second day and was like, "I'm returning guys." It was like Lord of the Rings. So he came back finally. May Lin did like one slope and was like, "I'm done guys." And then left. - No, 'cause May Lin, she also had the choice to snowboard or ski, right? And after about like one attempt on going down this beginner slope on the snowboard, she quits and just tries skiing again. - And then quick, 'cause she was shit at it. - 'Cause she couldn't do it.

- Skiing is easy, right guys? - He's like, I know how to do it. - Couldn't do it.

- If only you had the skis that first time around. - Yeah. - It's like, yeah, I can do it. - Yeah, easy. - I'm just holding back. - I didn't wanna show off. - Yeah, then Bailey came back the next day. I was like, guys, 'cause she only did like two slopes on the first day. She was like, all right, I'm gonna come back and do snowboarding again. I'm ready to try it. I can do it. Did like one thing and then gave up.

But at least she did try again the second day. - Yeah, I did try again the second day actually because I remember, so I went like all out on the first day. 'Cause I remember I didn't- - Yeah, you were fucked. - I was fucked. I didn't realize how tired I was because we went down the slope like a bunch of times. I was there all day.

- A lot of tumbles on the first day. And I was so ready for the second day 'cause I'm just like, by the end of the first day, I was just at the point when I was getting the hang of it. So I was like, fuck yes, day two, let's go. I opened my eyes on day two and it was like, I felt like I was fucking got punched by Mike Tyson or something like that. I didn't realize that the thing that hurt the most was my neck.

- 'Cause you've been hitting your neck a bunch. - Yeah, yeah, 'cause- - From the whiplash probably. - Yeah, I didn't realize that whiplash was a thing when you tumble that much, but now I know that whiplash is definitely a thing. - You should have got a helmet as well. - Oh, wait, you weren't wearing helmets? - They didn't give him one for some reason. - Oh, that's fucking dangerous, Jesus Christ. - They didn't give us helmets, I don't think. - Oh yeah, when I saw them without helmets, I was like, this is a terrible idea.

- I could go a whole day without a helmet, but like if I was doing like hard stuff, I would be very like, I would not go down like the hard ones. - If I went again, 'cause last time I went snowboarding was like six years ago, I would definitely get a helmet just 'cause like my body's not used to it. - I didn't really give a shit 'cause I was with these guys on like the green slopes and blue slopes and I was like, "Yeah, fucking."

- It's fine, it's fine. But then like, if I went down, like I took- - If you went down to like a Black Diamond. - Well, yeah, so I took Mackie down to Black Diamond. I was like, oh, okay. So everyone had left and then it was Mackie who was the one calling them a coward. And I was like, all right, it's time. Let's go and do a real one. And there was a double Black Diamond, which I wanted to do. - To clarify, like Black Diamond is like the hardest type of course. - Yeah, it's just like double Black Diamond, which is like the most extreme. And I couldn't convince him to do that. 'Cause I think he was like,

I'm good, but I'm not like that. I was like, all right, okay. - I love how like something about snowboarding just turns every guy into a dude, bro. You know what I mean? Like I can just imagine like when Garnt did that clean turn and Connor was like, "Yo!" - I was like, "What is it about him that like turns you into like a lad?" - You want your boys to enjoy it so that you can come back again. You know what I mean?

when I'm bringing my friends, my biggest worry is that they will hate it from falling over too much and they don't want to do it again. Because then I'm like, I can't bring my friends again. We can't go to the Alps, you know? We can't go to Italy, drink espressos, then hit the slopes. Have a few bevvies in Germany and hit the Alps. You know, they can't do that. That's what I want to do. So then I was like, yeah, it's just the boys now. It's just me and Mackie. I'm going to take him down a black. And so I found one that I, he definitely didn't want to do it. I was like, come on.

I'll be fine, I'll be fine. - Knowing Mikey, you can't say no, right? - Yeah, he was like, "Ah!" He's like, "I wanted to do a harder slope, but not this hard." I'm like, "Ah, I'll be fine, I'll be fine." Literally, this slope, you can't see the bottom of it. You can't see over it until you start going down it. It's that steep. And then when I started going on it, I was like, "Oh."

I think this is closed. 'Cause it hadn't been treated at all. It was like all ice. It was all steep ice, like crevices. And like, it was so steep that when you go off a little bit, you would just fall and hit like a crevice of ice.

It took all my fucking energy to get down this thing without falling over. - Yeah, it's fucking terrifying. - I was absolutely exhausted. I don't really get tired when I go on like blue or red ones 'cause I don't really have to use that much work. I kind of get lazy. But on the really tough ones, the amount you're turning, you have to constantly turn and throw your body where it doesn't, the board is like, no, no, no, we can't turn on this. It's too steep. You have to force it otherwise you're going too fast. So I'm like knackered. And then I look up and I see Mac, he just, he gets up, fucking puff, like falls over, gets up, falls over, gets up, falls over.

I was like, oh my God, Maylene's gonna fucking kill me. - That is what he did. - Yeah, Maylene thought I like killed him. She was like, oh my God, Connor's gonna kill him. - 'Cause that was on the second day, right? - Yeah, second day. - 'Cause like we went our separate ways on the second day because I woke up, felt like everything was aching. Everything felt like shit, but I was just like, no, I'm gonna still go. - You're still pumped, right? - I'm still pumped 'cause I really, really wanted a second day. So I was like, oh,

- Easy, fight through the pain. It's just a bit of muscle ache, right? You can get through a bit of muscle ache. So these guys go off to like a completely different course. - Yeah, it was like two sides of the mountain. - Yeah, it was like two sides of the mountain. So these guys go on a completely different course and I'm just like, great. I'll just be left to my own devices and by the end of this day, I'm going to conquer this beginner hill, right? 'Cause I felt like- - Live to.

So Sydney had given up by then and everyone else was on this other hill. And on the second day, it was actually like almost empty compared to the first day. 'Cause the first day was like, I think like it was like a Sunday, wasn't it? Or like a Saturday? - Yeah, it must've been. - It was like a public holiday, I think. And the second day wasn't a public holiday. So like the slopes were like,

- It was like perfect conditions as well. There was like a shit ton of snow and it was like perfectly clear. - Oh no. - Sun was out. It was like perfect. - So I get up to the beginner slope on the second day, everything aching as fuck. And I'm just like, it's fine. All I need to do is like tumble once and I'll just like fight through the pain and you know, get it over with. So like I go down, right? I started going down this beginner hill, get further than I did yesterday 'cause I got more used to it. And then I tumble and I was like, all right,

I'm like, you know, I expect this, but like I tumbled and I landed with my head like downhill. So like, so like I was, I was like downhill like this. - Yeah. - Right? And, and then I quickly realized, oh, how do I get up?

'Cause my neck muscles were not working at that point. So I could not lift my neck to go like that. I was lifting it not only like, even when I was like perfectly flat, it was hard enough to lift my neck up. No, I was going against the hill as well to lift my neck up. So I quickly realized that I couldn't lift my neck up. And I quickly realized,

- How heavy my gear that I was wearing was. - What I would do is just, if I'm face down, I just bring my board. I do like a flip back. - You can do a flip, but you can also kind of just like turn your body around, like shimmy your body around. - If you want to be faster, you can just fucking.

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that you came from your dad's balls. This is on script everyone. - I was the best load my dad ever shot. - Back to the fucking video. - Yeah, I kind of realized quickly, I was in a little bit of a pickle because I didn't know how I was going to get up with all this heavy gear. So what I tried doing is just like slowly shimmying, what was that? - Shimming. - Shimming like my body to be like horizontal or something where I could get up.

That took ages. I must've been there for like 40 minutes, right? - No one helped you? - No, no, no, that's the point. I was there for like a good 20 minutes and I'd gotten around like, I'd say about 20 degrees.

- If I saw someone upside down, I would go over and be like, "Yeah, you good?" - So after about 20 degrees, someone skis down and says, "Are you okay? Do you need any help?" And I'm just like, "No, I'm okay. I think I got this." So he goes, "Okay." And he offers me a hand. And so I get up and he helps me sit back up.

And so I sit back up, he goes back over and I'm like, okay, I got this.

I try shimmering a bit more, slip, like my body slips a bit and I'm like back on my back. And I had never known how it felt to be like, you know when you see like a tortoise on the back and they can't get back up? That's exactly how I felt. And so I- - One with nature. - And so after another 20 minutes, I finally get to the point where my feet is like, I'm feet first down the hill and I'm just like,

fuck this, I take off the snowboard and I walk the rest of the way down. I am not going through that experience again. - I would do like whatever it takes to not take the board off. I'm like, I would do- - Honestly, that's what I thought, but I'm just like, it took me literally 40 minutes. - I hate admitting defeat and taking the board off. - There's nothing sadder than just like walking down while everyone's just chung, chung, chung past you, right?

- It was a depressing day. - If you have to do it, you have to do it. - It's crazy, like everyone snowboards in Japan. It's really weird. In Europe, everyone skis. - Yeah, Japan, yeah, for some reason- - And no one wears helmets. - No. - No one wears helmets. - It's scary. - Yeah. - And like the rental place didn't even offer it. - No, I didn't know. - It's like an option you have to ask for.

- It's nuts. And I was like, you don't offer helmets? - Yeah, 'cause I got like the rental pack, which was like apparently like the all inclusive pack. And they just, yeah. - Clearly not all inclusive. - Even like professionals wear helmets. You know what I mean? - Exactly.

- You never know what could happen, right? 'Cause fucking, what was it? Michael Schumacher fell and hit a rock, didn't he? And then he's like, he's in a like vegetative state now, I think. - Is he? - And he's like, he was a really experienced skier. Yeah, yeah. And he just hit a rock. - Yeah. - I guess nobody told me. And I wish I- - I turned up and I'm like, oh God, they don't have helmets. - I mean, I wish I had worn a helmet so I could go the second day without feeling like- - It would help with your neck as well. 'Cause you'd have, you wouldn't be like-

I wouldn't be like fucking slingshot. - I wouldn't be like fucking slingshot. - Would it or would it just be like extra weight on your head? - 'Cause I feel like that extra like distance you go that the helmet off like cushions. - Oh, that's true. - Definitely helps. - Yeah, that's true. - Also there, dude skiing and then being able to get like a fat ramen or a curry, not damn it.

- That's good. - Oh yeah, like that onsen you go to after a full day of snowboarding is the best fucking feeling. It is the best sleep you'll have. - Onsen in this place was just like a view of like a ski slope. - It was like an outdoor onsen where you just viewed the mountains. - And like refurbished it all as well. - Yeah, yeah. - It was so fucking cool. - Could feel like the snow coming down.

- Take me back, man. Take me back. - No, this, or hopefully I'll be able to join you guys this year. - Hell yeah, hell yeah. Dude, I wanna ski so goddamn much. I haven't done nearly as much as I wanted to when I came here. - Yeah, I've fucking, dude, again, like I haven't gone snowboarding or skiing in like five years. - Yeah, and it's supposed to be like some of the best skiing in the world in Japan. - Yeah, some of the slopes I worked on is fucking insane.

- I would just want an experience where I'm not on my ass for literally 90% of the day. That would be a cool experience. - Also just after you're all like sore, you all go to the onsen and then you go for the meal and you get a bunch of beers. Oh, it's so good. After ski beer or snowboarding, it's just like. - 100%. - How long did it take you to learn snowboarding?

So I always did skiing 'cause my parents took me. They do like the whole like package holidays. I fucking, I hated skiing with, 'cause you'd ski in like groups with like, we'd go to like Bulgaria where it was like dirt cheap to like do it. And you'd have to be in a group of other like families. And I didn't really enjoy it 'cause I was always like the rebellious kid. So I wanted to do my own thing, but you had to like go and like follow along. And so I'd say it took me like, before I got like good enough to go on any slope skiing, it was like three weeks.

And then I taught myself how to snowboard. - Yeah, because once you've gotten the grasp of skiing, it's very easy to kind of, because you're already used to the lack of friction on the snow. - It was still really difficult. - It's still hard. - It's still hard. - 'Cause it didn't make sense in my head. - Nothing can prepare you for just how snowboarding works. 'Cause it really goes against everything your mind has trained you for. - I mean, especially the difference between skiing and snowboarding, right?

In skiing, it's like, if you're facing down the hill, then you're gonna go. And if you're not, then you've stopped. It's the literal opposite with snowboarding, right? You need to be facing the side to go and this way you stop.

But the thing that made me wanna change really badly was that I fuck, I'm sure anyone who skis will know this, that the shoes are just fucking awful. - The worst. - Concrete blocks on your feet. - 'Cause we were doing like, I'm really, really grateful that my parents took me on these like, they were like the cheapest skiing holidays you could get. So we often stayed really, really far away from the places and you'd have to put your ski shoes on.

- Kind of look like clown shoes. - Yeah, so you put these shoes on like 10 minutes before you'd like 10 minute walk from the bus. So you have to walk, I'm like 13 with my skis. I'm not that strong yet. Walking 10 minutes with my skis in these horrible things, click, clock, click. And then you have to wait on the bus for 20 minutes and you have to walk another like five minutes. And it's just like, I hated it. And then I was like, you know what? I hate these shoes so goddamn much. It's so painful wearing them. It's so, everything about these,

- They absolutely destroy your ankles. - And then I was like, I don't care what it takes. I'm gonna learn to snowboard for those gods. 'Cause you just get boots. - Yeah, the first time I wore snowboarding boots, I was like, I can walk normally. - And then when you're at the restaurant, you see these people with their trays like clocking with their skis, with their food on it. And I'm like, move out the way. Chad snowboarder boots here. - Runs past. - Oh, oh, oh, don't mind me. Just getting, that's beer? I'll take that, thank you very much.

you just get so much more freedom and so much chiller. Like, I don't know, you haven't got poles to carry. And so that's why I wanted to learn it. I fucking sucked. First three days, I just kept falling over. - Oh yeah, same. - Me and my little brother did it at the same time. And my little brother sprained his ankle, like first day, gave up. And I was like, no, I'm determined.

I'd say snowboarding the first week that I did it, I was pretty shit. I could go down a black slope by the end, but I was doing it really badly. I was just like going like this, you know, really slowly, but I went down it. And then I'd say like, it took me like maybe two or three more weeks before I felt like I could, I was actually doing it good. But yeah, I was self-taught. - Yeah, I mean, it's just about like, you know, just getting your body used to those weird movements that you've never done before. - Yeah, and going fast. - Yeah, but also it's just like,

you just have to commit to some of these. You just have to be like, I know this is not what I'm supposed to do, but I have to do this. And it's scary, dude. Like leaning forward on a hill, you're not built for that. Your brain's not built to do that. - Your brain's not built to be like, you know this thing you're going down fast? You gotta lean forward into the danger. - I always felt when I was skiing, when you go fast when you're skiing, I almost feel like it's safer than going slower.

Like I don't know why. - Yeah, weirdly. - It felt safer because like the way that, I don't know how it worked, but when I was going snowboarding, when I started getting speed, it did not feel like secure at all. It's wobbling and anything that hits the board underneath, you feel it a fuck ton when you're going really fast. It is fucking terrifying. And if you've tumbled when you're going like really fast, oh my God, you just fucking,

- Tumbling all over the place. - And also like tumbling with just these massive things on your feet. It never feels natural. It's like having two concrete bricks, just like.

- It's like the green army man. - Just kind of learn, just kind of do this and then hopefully you fall good. Just don't put your hands out. That's the hardest part is learning. When you fall naturally, you wanna put your hands out. That's when you sprain your ankles. Not ankles, your wrists. You can get like the wrist guards, but they don't help that much. - I mean, what I got taught, 'cause I got taught by an ex-professional snowboarder

And he said like, when you fall, like you have to fall with your fists. 'Cause if you fall like this, then it goes back. He did that and broke both of his wrists at the same time. So he's like, don't do that. That shit hurts. I can tell you firsthand. - I just put my arms like that. - Yeah, you just fucking do this, then you're good. - Just don't fall. - Just get good, right? - Why would I fall? - Literally what I found from snowboarding is that it's literally the get good of sports.

- If you're being taught by Matthew. - Just don't be a pussy and just get good. - I mean, like when I started getting used to it, there was nothing that could prepare my mind. Like, you know, I watch YouTube. When I watched the YouTube tutorials, I was trying to follow what they were saying, but nothing could really prepare me for just like getting the feel of the snowboard. 'Cause it's like, you gotta shut off.

a part of your brain and relearn like another skillset when you were like snowboarding and stuff. - Yeah, and also like just where you're putting pressure on your like toes and your like the exact point can determine so much on how you're steering. You get so much more control once you realize like, okay, if I just have faith, if I put pressure here, it'll turn where I want it to.

but you kind of got to like not panic to learn that. - Yeah, panicking is what fucks you up the most. - It's good though. I mean, if you get the chance to go, go, but obviously, I feel like it is a very privileged sport. - It is, yeah. - We've been talking about a lot of privileged activities, haven't we? Like kayaking and snowboarding. - I remember when I was at the ski resort and I found my mom to tell her that I was like snowboarding and she was like, "Oh, you rich now, are you?"

- To us, to me, snowboarding and skiing has always been like the rich man's sport. It's always been like the white man's sport. That's how I was raised up to view snowboarding and skiing because when I go on holiday, I visit back

with the back home and everything that I go to like a nice cheap beach or whatever in Thailand or whatever. Snowboarding and skiing, like the only reason I'd never gone before was because there seems to be like so many steps and so many, like so much equipment that you need in order just to go down a slope. It's kind of like golfing. - Yeah, I was about to say there's two types of rich white man sports. It's you either go skiing and snowboarding or you play golf. - I think I saw something. I don't know if this is true or not, but I saw something and it was like,

It was like based on like sports or accidents in general, what percentage of them were like white people. And it was like the most, the whitest accident you can have

is on a fucking jet ski. It was like, I can't remember where it was. It was like 99.5% of accidents on jet skis were white people. And then the next one was skiing in Snowboard. - Yeah, of course. - Like 97 or something. - There's nothing more white than a jet ski. - When you put it like that, I'm like, I don't think there is anything whiter than owning a jet ski. It is like...

- It is the wildest thing ever. - Have you ever been on a jet ski? - No. - Have you thought about going on a jet ski? - I'd like to. - I'd like to. - Who the fuck owns a jet ski? - I don't know. - I don't live in like Florida or shit like that. - I've been on a jet ski. It's fun as fuck, yeah. 'Cause I mean, in Thailand, obviously with the beach and everything, there's some services where you can like rent out a jet ski for like a half an hour or whatever. I mean, it's basically just a motorbike on water. - You jump off it? - Huh?

- Do any sick tricks? - SSX on a jet ski. - Do any flips? - No, I mean, it's just a lot of fun. I can see how people get injured on that though. You go pretty fast and you think that it's water, so it doesn't hurt. - It's a concrete. - Yeah, exactly. You think that you're falling off at full speed, it doesn't hurt, but it fucking hurts. But it's a lot of fucking fun.

I mean, I haven't done much on it. I mean, I've only had like half an hour on a jet ski on a beach in Thailand once, but that's pretty much it. - I feel like that's all I'd need. I'd be like, you know what, now I'm done. - I've fulfilled the white man experience. - I tell you that this like fucking ski resort that we stayed at, it was like, its theme, like what its theme was like, it was very like,

inspired by, I guess like American culture. - Right, I think that sounds so bizarre. A Japanese ski resort inspired by American culture. - It's really weird. It was like kind of what I imagine a ferry would be like. It had a lot of different,

A lot of different things for like- - 1950s carnival style, I'd say. - Oh, weird. In Japan? - In Japan. - Whereabouts did you guys go? - Hokkaido. - Oh, Hokkaido. - But there was some areas of this hotel that were like totally normal, chill, but there was a big area that was like kids theme park carnival theme. It was really weird. - So they had like these animatronics

- Like some Chuck E. Cheese shit. - Yeah, exactly like that. She's like some Chuck E. Cheese shit, right? But I don't know when they had bought these animatronics. I don't know when they had bought these animatronics because we were just, me and Sydney were just sitting there like, and they play these like songs, right? They'd have these like,

animatronic concerts in this like children's area where you can buy fucking burgers and fries. It was like an eating area. - It's like a full on Chuck E. Cheese. - Yeah, yeah. - Basically, and these poor employees had to listen to these fucking things sing all day. - Yeah, and so me and Sydney were just enjoying like a nice burger and everything like that. And then this fucking like fucking animatronic dog or something just starts bigging up the Confederacy.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - What? - Yeah, and I was just like, I had me and Sidney have to double take to be like, did we just hear that correctly? Like what is going on right now? - Yeah, 'cause I walked past them and I was like, don't mind my own thing, I'm like,

- Why are they wearing Confederate soldier uniforms? - Oh my God. - Dead ass. - Jesus Christ. - So after we heard that, we took like a closer look at these animatronics, right? To be like, what is going on? When did they buy these and where did they buy these from? And we saw one of the bears was,

- It was very, let's say not very tasteful. - 1920s black cartoon character. - Oh no. - Yes, yes. - The lips were like massive, you know? And it had the stereotypical cartoon black man accent of like 1920s.

- I don't even want to. - I know what you're talking about. - If you go and watch like a Disney cartoon from the 1920s with a black person with that kind of like stereotypical accent they gave them and character, and it was just that, and it was like, oh no, oh no, oh no. - Why? - Why? - And yeah, these-

- Why? You can't make that shit up. - These poor Japanese tourists or these poor Japanese tourists are just like, "Ah, American culture, yeah." Kids are just like running around being like, "Mama, what's the Confederacy?" - Oh my God. - Oh yes, yes, man, it's got a fucking video. - Can you show it to Joey? - Nothing weirder than that thing standing next to a Miku. - Wait, is that a Miku thing?

- Oh no. Oh no. - Oh, that's, oh, that is awesome. - That was a really good result though. It was really cheap. - It was a really good result. - Really good result by that. - Just like that. Fantastic. - Jesus Christ. - It is one of those things where you're like, this is great.

- Why is this a thing? Why is this here? - Yeah. - It's like, you know, you have that like your 90 year old aunt who has that one piece of memorabilia where you're like, "Auntie, you should probably throw that away." - She should probably not talk about that. - She should probably get rid of that.

- I mean, to give them the benefit of the doubt, I don't think that anyone there knew. - Yeah, it's just a case of they don't know. - But it's the matter of like, you know, when tourism comes back in, right? - It's been there for decades. - Well, clearly, yeah. - How has no tourist come up and be like, "You know what that is, right?" It's probably not a good idea. - Yeah, I wonder if it's a thing of like, you know, because obviously in the past like, you know, five, six years, it's been a very hot, hot thing.

And it's only now where we've really started to be like, we should probably get rid of all that shit. - Yeah, it's not a good idea. - So I wonder though, I wonder, has anyone sent them an email letting them know like, "Hey, love the animatronics. They're great, they're really great." - The dog is cute, but. - Maybe we should kind of change up the theme a little bit.

- We got a bunch of Mikus probably lying around. We probably resurfaced them. - Yeah, that picture of the Miku next to the dog, I was like, that is some cursed shit. That looks photoshopped. - I didn't wanna like swear off this place. I thought it was, you know, I'm sure, you know, it's- - It's very good. There has to be a reason behind it. - It was a nice place and I really did feel like they were just like ignorant, you know?

- Yeah, I mean, it kind of felt like they just like brought some memorabilia from America. They didn't know what they were buying. - Well, I mean, this is Hokkaido, right? A lot of the fucking ski resorts are in the middle of nowhere. - Yeah, it's in the middle of fucking nowhere. They have no idea about anything like what's going on. - It makes sense, but it's still not good. - It was just super fucking bad.

- Yeah, it was really bizarre. - You walk into this- - It's the last thing you expect to see in the middle of fucking nowhere in Japan. - 'Cause we had to go on a coach that lasted about two, three hours in the middle of fucking Hokkaido. So we were going in the middle of nowhere and we walk in and it's just like old American memorabilia everywhere. It was so fucking bizarre. - It was massive as well. The hotel part was really fancy as well.

the entrance to this hotel was like marble, like pure marble with like pillars. And it's like, what the fuck is going on? It's so fancy, you can get a helicopter from the airport to the hotel. - Fucking hell. - Yeah, yeah. But then they just have this whole thing that's like, and then,

- Also, I mean, it's completely unrelated, but I was really offended when I bought a, what was it advertised as a coffee and I paid $3 for it. And I was like, it's not the most expensive coffee, but I was like, all right, fine, pay $3 for it. Literally dead ass saw this woman put a fucking shitty pod into a machine and then put it, take a coffee.

- I don't want it anymore. - Was it a Nespresso? - It wasn't even a Nespresso. It was some budget version of Nespresso. I was like, what is this? If it's a Nespresso, maybe I'll pay $3. - Not even a Nespresso? - That's at the bare minimum. If you're charging for a coffee, I'm not expecting much, but if you're gonna put the pod in fucking front of me, literally just get the pod in front of me. - Right in front of my coffee, really? - Really? I was like, I don't wanna drink this shit. Get this acid water out of my face. I don't wanna fuck.

Connor showing his privilege clearly here. - Yeah, if it's a pod, get it out of my face. - I've become spoiled on coffee to the point where I just can't like drink the shit stuff anymore. Like instant coffee, the thought of drinking that now, like the one in the tubs. - The Nescafe ones? - Oh, fuck dude, fuck. Oh, Jesus Christ. I show my privilege. I don't even care, dude. If show my privilege means I don't have to drink that shit again, gladly. - Look at you, not drinking instant coffee, going snowboarding, the true rich white man experience. - It's not privilege.

- It's called fucking taking care of myself, not putting that fucking dirt water acid into my body. If you're still drinking instant coffee, I get it. If you're desperate, I always have it in the cupboard. If I'm desperate, I have nothing else, I'll do it. But if that's your like, can't wait for my morning cup of coffee, puts acid in hot water, no, don't do that. You're worth more than that. Don't enable these companies to sell this garbage shit that they call coffee. It's not coffee. Rant over.

- Ted talk. - Would you drink it? Would you drink it? - I don't drink it. - Back me up here boys, what the fuck? - I mean, you kind of just saying what I'm thinking. - The stage is all yours. - Let the white man fucking. - Let the white privileged white man who just came back from snowboarding say. - I'll just come back, it's fucking me. Where am I gonna snowboard?

- Oh my God. - No, 'cause like the worst part of like staying in a hotel, right, is just knowing that you're gonna have to like drink that shitty instant three-in-one coffee. - You mean that shitty coffee that you had at the Dior Con as well, at camping? - Oh God, don't remind me, man. - So there was this coffee machine in the Dior Con, right?

- Okay, hold up though. The fact that there's a coffee machine in a Rio can is already, it's amazing. There's normally no coffee to be found in these places. - Usually there isn't, right? So all of us, when we walked in, we saw that and the guy was like, "Yeah, so for people who are staying, you get free coffee at the coffee machine." And everyone's like, "Perfect, that's great. Tomorrow morning is gonna be fantastic." Walk up and my first red flag was, it was like, "Free coffee." And I was like,

- No, no, make me pay, please make me pay. - There is nothing scarier than something that's for free. - 'Cause I was gonna be like- - Tea, I sleep, that's fine. - Yeah, I was like, it's a machine that serves coffee and you press the button and you could hear beans grinding. So I'm just like, surely there must be some quality to this if I can hear something whirring in the machine. It's not just a pod or something like that. So I get this coffee, I drink it and I'm just like, man, I never thought I would ask for a refund for a free coffee, but I'm kind of considering it now. - How is it so bad though if it's like grounded coffee?

- I mean, I don't know if it was grounded coffee. There might've just been like beans in a container. - I'm pretty sure they just grounded dirt and they sold it as coffee because that's what it fucking tasted like. - I'm pretty sure it was the rocks that were being ground up, right? Like from the dirt that they dug up. - It's like how some vacuums have like speakers in them to have like sounds play when you pick up stuff. Like to make it sound more. - It was not fresh coffee.

- If it was beans, those beans have been there since those animatronics have been there. - Well, once you grind the beans, they go bad like within like, oh God, I don't know how long, maybe like a few weeks. - Well, clearly the people at the hotel didn't know. They're like, well, I mean, once they're in the machine, they're good to go, aren't they? - Yeah, beans, they get pretty bad pretty quickly. That's why you're supposed to like grind them when you drink them. - Yeah.

But clearly they didn't think about that. They were like, "Oh, there you go. "Unlimited supply of coffee right here for you. "Fine people staying at our hotel." - Honestly, I will happily be called privileged for just wanting good coffee. I'll take it, I'll take it. 'Cause I remember like- - The most acceptable form of privilege. - I was like, "Okay, so if I'm privileged, fine. "I'm not a peasant there. "If I'm not a peasant, fine, fine." - 'Cause like I remember like I've grown up my entire life on instant coffee.

Like my childhood was my parents like drinking instant coffee with powdered coffee mix, right? And that was just my entire life. I remember like after I finished university, you know, had my first job, you know, I tried getting a coffee machine for the first time.

And I remember the first thing my mom said, my mom and dad said to me, it was like, "Oh, you don't need a coffee machine. "We got fucking Nescafe right here." Just this fuck, it's cheap. - It's so easy. - It's so easy. - Mother, I respect myself and I'm not putting that dirt in my body. - So one year I buy them for like, I think it was, I can't remember if it was Christmas or one of their birthdays, buy them a coffee machine. I'm just like, "Mom,

"Dad, try this, just try it, just give it a try." - Just give it a go. - And now every few weeks or something, they're just like, "Son, we need more pods. "Son, where do we buy the pods?" - It is so much better. It's like night and day how much better it is. - Yeah. - It's a lot more expensive. - That's what I'm looking forward to in my new place 'cause my old place, I didn't have enough space for an espresso machine, right? So I'm like,

Fuck the curtains, fuck the couches, fuck the beds, Nespresso machine. That is the first thing on my list right now. - I said this on the live stream, bro. I could lose my house and I'm like, can I keep the coffee machine at least though? - If my house catches on fire, I'm taking the Nespresso machine. - What do you say if your gaming PC or your life's work now, I'm grabbing the coffee machine. At least I can watch my house burn down with a nice cup of coffee. - With a nice cup of coffee. - With a nice tasting espresso, you know what I mean? Fuck me. - Oh my God.

- Honestly, I wish we did bring a coffee machine on camping. Fuck the TV. - Yeah, I mean, that's what the fucking power outlet was for, right? - If you got a power outlet, why would you not bring it? - I think that's what the power outlet was for, honestly. - Put it into Garnt's fucking monstrosity of a generator and bring your Nespresso machine with you. Bring the milk frother too. - And bring the milk, put it in a mini fridge, connect the mini fridge thing as well. - I can just imagine, dude, if I step out of my tent and I hear like,

And I look over at someone else's camping lot and I see them with an espresso machine. I'd be like, you fucking 10,000 IQ motherfucker. I hate you so much right now. And then he fucking froths the milk and I'm like, God, damn it. - God always tells me. - Bringing a TV, weak shit. Bringing your own espresso machine and milk frother, that's big brain. That's really the big brain stuff. - The thing about camping, I don't know why, but like most food you cook on camping,

- There's something about the camping cook. - There's something about just cooking something on an open fire. It just makes it be like your caveman brain just activates and you're just like, this tastes good. - Bacon on campfire is like next level. - Any meat on campfire is legendary. - The only thing that is just never translated is coffee.

Coffee, like camping coffee is just like the most, okay. - Literally the headset meme of the guy ripping it off. - Yeah. - Campfire coffee.

- Yeah, 'cause let's be honest, camping is basically just homeless simulator for like a few days, right? - I don't know about that. - It's like privileged homeless simulator. - It's like, have you guys ever seen a homeless person before? - It's like homeless simulator with a savings account. - We're trying to get speed run canceled over here. - What, by the homeless community?

- I mean, you're basically going homeless for a few days and then live the field, right? - I mean, you got a tent, you have a fucking power outlet. Name one homeless person with a power outlet, God. - I'm not saying in Japan, I'm not in Japan. I'm just saying normally, like have you seen it? - I don't think homeless people just are like, you know what, I'm homeless, I'm gonna retreat to the mountains and live there. They don't do that. That's not what they fucking do. 'Cause they don't have a fucking tent 'cause they're homeless.

- Oh my God. - That's Skid Row. - I mean, this is going a bit off topic, but I mean, yeah, I've seen some homeless people have tents. Do they not have tents? - They do. - Yeah. - It depends where you are though. I mean, Skid Row, everyone has a fucking tent. - Yeah, they're all camping. - Yeah, exactly. - No, they're not fucking. - I'm just joking, I'm just joking. - We apologize if any of these jokes are very tasteless, which they probably are. - They probably are. It's all right.

But no, what was I saying? - He was homeless simulator. - He was homeless simulator. There's nothing that has made me just like feel more like. - Are you gonna say you feel grateful? - I feel grateful that I have a roof over my head. - You are so fucking white right now. - I feel grateful that I have a roof over my head and that I have a coffee machine. - I spent one day in the outdoors with a,

- Power outlet. And I'm so grateful that I have all these. - It wasn't the tent, it wasn't the power outlet, it was the coffee, which is what I was trying to say.

So if you want to feel grateful for your coffee machine- - If I said that, that would come off as 10 times more privileged than- - Oh, come on. You've said something like that before anyway. - I will, yeah. - I'm pretty sure you said something five minutes ago that was like that. - And so what? I don't care. I'm tired of pretending to be a peasant, frankly. It's never what I aim to be. I remember when I was younger, the moment I realized, I was like, this peasant life isn't for me.

I was like 10 years old. - 10 years old? - I don't know, arbitrary age of young age. - Yeah, right. - We went on a plane somewhere and I was like, why? - Well, already privileged, you get to go on a plane? - That's not fucking, oh, come on. It's like fucking Ryan,

- Ryanair, it's hardly a fucking privilege. - You ever been on EasyJet, Joey? - I never. - That's the furthest thing from privilege. - It was like a layover or something. And then so this was like, it was a flight that was going to like Australia, but it stopped in like where we were going to, like Amsterdam. So it was like a two hour flight. But I remember we were sitting in an economy and I was like, "Mom, why do they get to go in the really, really cool looking one? They get to lie down." They were like, "Oh, 'cause that's really expensive." And I was like,

"Why don't you pay for it?" And I was like, "We can't afford it." And I'm like, "We can't afford it." - Just get a good bank account. - I was like, "You guys have a job, right?" And they're like, "Yeah, we can't afford it, it's too expensive." I'm like, "Oh."

- If you were my kid, I would have slapped you over the head. - No, I was just asking. I was like, how much is it? I don't know how much it is. How does it work? 'Cause I'm young as fuck. I don't know how much it costs. I have no notion of this before. I'm like, well, I mean, how much is it? - How much? Why can't you afford it? - I'm like, what? So you're telling me that those people over there have enough money for it? Nah, that's not right. If they can get it, I can get it. Fuck that. That was like my mindset. That's how I've always been in life. I'm like, if someone else can have it, I can have it. Why can't I have it?

- Why not? If they get it, why don't I? I'm a person too. - Did you think like that as a kid? - I don't know. I always thought if someone else could do it, I can do it. - When I was like 10, all I thought was like, thank you father for buying me a packet of Mentos. - No, no, no, I was grateful, but I was always wondering, you never wondered why there was other people who had like all this stuff? - I wondered, but I was like, well, the fact that we're not there right now means that they're different, right? - They're the same as us, they just got lucky.

- Fuck that. That's what they want you to believe. They want you to believe they are like 10,000 IQ. We earned this. Fuck off. No, they didn't. They got fucking lucky. Fuck off. No, you didn't. You made a few good decisions and that you made an air conditioning company. Good for you. - How to get privileged? Just get lucky. - There's a lot of luck involved.

- It is mostly luck. - 90% of the people in that first class fucking bought into wealth, bro. It's bullshit. - That is true. - Not fair. It's the same rich people giving each other their kids money. I'm like, fuck that. I deserve that. Why don't I deserve that?

I'm gonna have some of that. - What's wrong with having that mindset being like, if they can do it, why can't I get it? - I mean, there's nothing wrong with having that mindset. - There's nothing wrong with having that mindset. It's just funny that you were having that mindset at like age 10. - Literally, yeah, like from a young age. - You're just trying to be a pro gamer. - From a young age, I always was like, I just wanna like, why? Why can't I? - Why aren't my parents min-maxing life right now? - I just always thought if someone else could do something, always from a young age, if they could do it, I could do it.

- Yeah, that's great. That's a great mentality to have. When it's talking about, you know, like privilege. - Well, it's because money is like a taboo subject, right? You can't say that you want to get a lot of it. I mean, I just think that like- - That's bullshit. Like everyone wants to have a lot of money. - Yeah, of course. - I mean, I- - But no one wants to admit that, right?

People don't wanna admit that they're like that. I mean, people were always like, if I had that, but they're never like, I'm gonna go for it. 'Cause it's embarrassing admitting to your friends being like, I'm gonna be a millionaire. I'm gonna do go for that shit. 'Cause that sounds you're like, all right, all right. - Yeah, all right. - All right, go back to Walmart. You know what I mean? It's like, nah, dude, fuck that. Let people try if they want to man, let them fuck up. - Absolutely. - If you're gonna go bankrupt, do it before 30 so you can at least like fix your shit. Like what was it? I saw a thing that was like most people have the most impactful years in your life are like 40 years old.

Like the people who do the most important things are the CEOs of the company, all that stuff. It's when you're 40. So just fuck up, try and do a bunch of shit. - Yeah, exactly. - Honestly, take some risks. - Go for gold when you're like 20, why the fuck not? - Take some risks while you're young.

- Yeah, honestly, like what I try to tell people is like, especially those in their mid twenties, 'cause I feel like everyone hits their mid twenties or like 23, 24, where they realize, oh, I'm just gonna be working for the rest of my life. And you know, everyone gets their first job, you get excited getting your first job, you're like, damn, I'm actually getting paid for once. I'm not a peasant anymore.

- 'Cause let's be honest, being a student is like- - That's what they want, that's what the system wants you to think. - Exactly. - Being a student is just like, man, you've just gotten used to living like a peasant, right? - Right, right. - It's like, yes, this is normal. - Yeah, you're just like, I remember like somewhere in my mid twenties when I just realized, man, how the fuck did I just live off cup ramen for a good like five years of my life? That's not normal. And I've just like internalized that to be like, dude,

- Night out versus cup ramen. Night out anytime. - Yeah, of course, of course. - Gotta get your priorities right. But then you realize, well, I have a,

with a disposable income, I can have like a decent living. And that's what you would hope that most people would have if they went through university, if they got an education. It's a lot harder now. - Oh yeah, absolutely. - Like I was lucky enough to get even my first job after I graduated from uni, which a lot of people have a hard time doing now. But I will say if you,

are able to be in a position where you can give yourself a safety nets, then by all means, fuck up in your twenties. Fuck, because your twenties are the best point where you can fuck up in life.

and still it not be the end of the world. - Yeah, you still have enough time to recoup, right? And like, you know, get back to ground zero. - Yeah, that's why I was just like, fuck it. Yeah, I'll try YouTubing. It's probably a terrible idea to lose two or three years of my possible long engineering career to this. But I was like, fuck it. Like, I'm gonna try it. Like, why wouldn't I try it? Like, it'd be stupid for me not to try it. - Yeah, go for gold. But I mean, it does get to a point where,

- If I went down like the engineering path, I'm sure you too, you know, eventually in your forties, you'd probably have a very cushy wage. You'd be very well off. You'd have a very nice, you know, you'd be able to afford very fine things in life. When you become a chartered engineer, the pay you get is very good. And when you work in certain places where the engineering gets more difficult or whatever, like you can start getting naughty money.

But I was just like, yeah, fuck that. I'd rather take 20K a year doing something that I like that also has the chance to make way more down the line. And that's what I was always like though. I always thought why settle? I would rather risk losing it all trying to make a million dollars and then just settle for like-

- To me it's like, I can do that at any point in my life. I can settle down and do things smartly. - Because you never know with our career, it could start happening tomorrow for all we know. - If you become the biggest fucking YouTuber on the planet next week, dude, you're set for life. You know what I mean? So it's like, but I don't even think of it like that. It's not like how I see YouTube anyway.

I just would rather risk and do something that's kind of like, oh, I just kind of could lose it all, hee hee XD. Could like just become homeless tomorrow. - Better start camping. - Yeah, right? Better start getting good at camping. But like, I mean, I'd rather try it. - Yeah, of course. - Fuck it, why not? - I mean, I think it's important to like recognize that some people are just not in the position to be able to try. - That's true, yeah. - Because like- - I was very, very lucky that

I'd built up the savings and I also had a really good family that set me up to do that. - 'Cause like, I will say this right now, like my, I always never brought up, like my family weren't in the best of financial positions at all. But like, I was lucky enough to have like a mom and dad who's like, worked their fucking asses off to like get me through and give me a better opportunity than they ever had. And that's why, like right now I'm trying to like, most of like, most of everything I earn, I like,

I like spend on them. I spend more on them than I do on me because I feel like it's my way of like paying back the opportunity that they gave me. - Such a good boy. - Yeah, I mean, it's... - Such a good son.

- I mean, dude, like, yeah, I mean my parents, like, especially my dad, he came up from like fucking poverty almost in fucking Thailand and luck somehow found his way to England and worked his fucking ass off. Had a much harder life than I ever went through. So of course I'm like, fucking dad. - Isn't that fucking bad ass though? Like, you know, he had a dream, moved to England and then his son's like engineering degree. And then now he took some anime titties.

- That part of the story. - That was not what I was expecting. - That part of the story, he doesn't tell that. It's family gatherings. - Nah, he's fucking proud now, man. - He's like, yeah. - Like that's badass, dude. - Yeah, exactly. Because I feel like it's a fallacy where you,

you think money solves every problem that you have. When money does not solve- - It makes life significantly easier. - It sounds so privileged when you say that, but no, as someone who has been poor in her life, money doesn't solve every problem, but there is a point in your life where money is 90% of your problems.

- Right. - And just, and once you- - Money is your problem. You don't really have time to think about anything other than money. - Exactly. And like my mentality when I was a kid was just, I just want to get by and have, and be like comfortable, you know, because- - Same, same, same. - And you know, I feel like that was my big driving force to like really try to be successful and to take risks is just 'cause I was just tired of just

not like knowing what my life situation would be like five years down the line. It's just like, how am I, how the fuck am I gonna take care of my parents when they get old? Like that was a big fucking thing for me. - There's definitely a time when I was like 16 to like 18 where I thought I really love video games. I don't really care what job I get. I just wanna be able to play games after work.

That's what I genuinely, I thought I wanted for like a few years. And then when I went to university, it like very much kicked in. I was like, I don't think I can do an eight hour job a day. - No. - I hate.

I can't do that. - I did a three month internship to know that I don't want to do this for the rest of my life. I was like- - More part of people who love that line of work. I was jealous. At the time I was so jealous of the people that loved my course and what we were doing. 'Cause I felt like they were just so OP with school. They like got through it. They got all the good opportunities 'cause they enjoyed it. Like I just didn't enjoy it. I couldn't try 'cause I just didn't care.

- I have so much respect for people who can go to their nine to five job and be like, "Yeah, this is fine." - At the time when I didn't know what the fuck I was doing, I was so jealous. I was like, "Fuck man, I wish I knew what the fuck I was doing." And I'm sure for every person, I got very lucky and I found something that I loved and that luckily makes money somehow. My mom disbelieves that it did for a very long time.

- I think a lot of parents did. - Somehow it makes money, right? And I'm sure for every one of me that got very lucky, there was probably 10 people who never really found what they liked and just had to like kind of just be like, all right, well, I gotta get a job. I can't do nothing all my life. - I think one thing I've realized more as I've grown older is that as a kid, we were sold this idea that there's only really one

one way your career path can go, right? It's like education, university, get a job to do with your degree and your career progresses from there. And that's like, I had this, had that mentality for like the longest time of my life. And now like the older I've,

the more people I've met who have had like the weirdest fucking career paths. - I mean, Ladybeard. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - We've had a lot of those people on the podcast. - I feel like in the entertainment industry, you do meet the people who kind of are just bouncing from things to things. - They're just trying to figure out what they want. - Not even in entertainment, just like living in Japan as well.

Like meeting like teachers who have like found opportunities just randomly. Like sometimes like what I'm trying to say is that as a kid, I was, you know, we got put this pressure on that by the time you go to university or by the time you finish high school, you need to know what you want to do for the rest of your life. - I wish they didn't fucking tell me that lie. - Yeah, that's bullshit. That is 100% bullshit. - That is the biggest lie

of the fucking world. Especially when you're a young adult. The biggest lie of the fucking world is thinking that once you start a career path, that you're gonna have to stick on this for like the majority of your life. And that's such a fucking lie. And like another big lie is thinking that you need to go to fucking university or college to have a decent career. That's also a fucking lie. There are so many different career paths

that are available to you, that is not just higher education. Because as an Asian, I was taught that if I don't do higher education, I'm a fucking failure. - If I don't get that A, I failed as an Asian. - I'm not even talking about being a YouTuber, 'cause obviously we are very lucky to be able to be YouTubers. I'm not even talking about like, oh, we're YouTubers, that's a different career path I've found. No, I've met like,

So many other people who have like just found random jobs. I mean, fucking May Lynn found her fucking job through Craigslist.

- It is about just trying and looking and just being at the right place at the right time and making sure you take every opportunity that comes your way. I just say yes to everything. - You miss every opportunity you don't take. - Yeah, man. Which is in the UK, which is something that I just really didn't enjoy, was like the culture of you go to work, you go to the pub and that's it. Like you never try and do any self-improvement. You never try and like look for any other opportunities. Like looking for another job is like, oh wow, what's wrong with you?

And like, there are so many opportunities out there for different jobs that you like never even thought about until it's just on your lap. Like, have we ever talked about Kenny before? Like your friend? - No, I haven't talked about Kenny. - What he's doing? - Oh, yeah, Kenny's my friend who lives in Niigata. He's just crazy guy. He's great. I love him. He's amazing. He's so funny. He's really- - He's a proper lad he is. - And he's just, he's up in Niigata in the middle of Japan and he's half Japanese, half Welsh.

a fake priest. And I think I've spoken about this before that my friend's a fake priest. But like he teaches English and then he's also a fake priest and that's just what he likes doing. But he also just doesn't really care about being in one place for too long. He's like, "I'll just kind of go wherever." - He's just a wanderer. - He literally just goes places and he's like, "All right, what's going on? Let's figure out, let's try and get a job here." - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - He just doesn't give a fuck. - I have a friend who's similar to that. - I couldn't do that.

But he's badass. He just turns up and does what he wants. It's great. And he's always super happy and super optimistic. And I'm like, "Fuck, are you British? "Are you really like, you grew up in the UK, right? "How are you this optimistic?" - It's the Japanese side that's kicking in for him right now. - Yeah, he just turns up. He's like, "Yeah, what's going on?

Like, you know, always has a good time, talks to anyone he meets. Like, it's just like, yeah. - I feel people like that are usually like the most optimistic people in the planet, right? 'Cause I have a friend like that who was like, he's an animator for an anime studio here. He did like the, I met him through like the Pop Team Epic stuff. But like, he also just like,

He's just like, I'm just gonna go on a road trip for a month and just try and make some money along the way and just see what happens. And he comes back with all these insane stories of just him on the road being like, yeah, I just walked into this random cafe, got a job for two days and then got some money and used that for fuel to just go to the next place. I'm like, that's so fucking cool because I can never fucking do that.

I could not bring myself to just be like, I don't know where I'm gonna be tomorrow. I don't know what I'm gonna do tomorrow. I couldn't do that myself. - I couldn't do that either. I need some, at least a little bit of a plan. - I need some kind of direction. - I like plans. - I like plans. - I used to spreadsheet all my spending in university to the penny and I would have a prediction of my spending coming up.

and what I was allowed to spend and like literally everything in a spreadsheet. And then when I started like my YouTube started giving me some money and in university, I was like, oh my God, this is amazing. I was like, I don't need the spreadsheet anymore. Fuck this.

Why am I like fucking, why am I like spending hours a week updating this fucking spreadsheet? It doesn't fucking matter anyway. So I'm not gonna spend that much. It doesn't fucking matter. - Oh my God. - Yeah. - And like to go off what we were saying, I'm not saying that there's no place for like higher education and university or everything, but- - I'm still glad I went. - Yeah, I mean, I'm still glad I went. But what I'm saying is like,

you don't feel the pressure to need to go just because you don't know what you wanna do with your life. That's the big thing, right? 'Cause it's such bullshit that by the time you hit 18, it's just the expectation where it's just like, you need to know what you're doing now. Your birthday is ticked over, you are now an adult. You need to know everything now. - There are 30 year olds out there, 40 year olds who don't know what the fuck they want

- The guy who founded McDonald's is like 40 years old. - Yeah, right? - I don't really feel too bad about it. Like I said earlier, you'll do the most productive years of your life like 40 years old. So as far as I'm concerned, you're just fucking up until you get to the point where you can actually do shit. - Yeah, exactly. - You're just fucking up enough until you've found out a way to not fuck up, right? - Build the foundation of the character you wanna be.

- It all goes back to the snowballing, right? Like just tumble a couple of times until you learn how to not tumble. - Damn, what a good ending, cue credits. - Get good, get good, get good in life. - Well with that amazing segue, thank you, Joey. Let's check out the patrons, look at them. - Wow. - Beautiful. - Look at all these lovely patrons. - None of these are peasants. - None of these are, they all own espresso machines. - None of them are homeless, right? - Hopefully. - Hopefully. - Hopefully. - I'm getting out of here before we get canceled too.

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