Welcome to Trash Taste Season 2 | Trash Taste #55
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- Hello and welcome to Trash Taste season two, guys. - Yay! - Look at this new set. Hello. - You like?

- Yes, hello. - You don't get to say, this is our set from now on. - Yes, welcome back to "Trash Taste" season two. I'm your host for today, Garnt. And join me once again are the boys. I say this because we've had like a three week break or something. - No, no, no, it's longer than that. - It's like five week break. - We haven't recorded a podcast in like five weeks. - Oh my God. 'Cause like you guys have had the privilege of seeing our faces every week, but we have not talked on camera for a good three, five weeks or so, right? - Yeah. - I think it's five weeks.

- How long has it been, Meilyne? - It must be at least, yeah, so it's at least four weeks. - Yeah, about a month. And it's taken a long time to build this set, a lot longer than I thought it was going to take. You guys have seen like the kind of like rough progression of it from hopefully the Trash Taste vlogs and also the sneak preview of like the sponsorship segments where it's just like a bunch

- It's like, oh wow, great upgrade these boys are having. - I think everything's changed except for the TV, the mics and this. - Yeah, pretty much. - But we're gonna change the figures as well. - Yeah, the figures are eventually gonna be changed when we can film our figure special. Unfortunately,

Japan's just about opening up. So maybe you will be able to film that soon. - But we figured like, what's one thing that'll make us really let people know that we're based in Japan. Let's grab some Japanese screens. That's the most Japanese you can get. - Oh, you live in Japan? - It's okay, we have a Japanese guy on it. It's not cultural property. - Exactly, exactly. I allowed it.

- Did you ask me permission? - Joe, is this cultural appropriation? I don't know. - It's fine. - I gave you the J-pass, it's all right. - Why do they absorb light so damn well? - I know. There's a reason why so many YouTubers use it and I finally understand why it's in so many sets. So yeah, hopefully you guys like our brand new set. - We've got new cameras.

- We just kind of like not new lights. We've got kind of upgraded every single aspect behind the scenes as well. So hopefully it looks clearer to you. Please don't stare at my paws because I saw them on our new cameras. I'm just like, this kind of makes me uncomfortable. - Yeah. - Now I understand why like movie stars like wear makeup. - Do I have to start like fucking moisturizing and like taking care of my face now? - I already don't like how I look in 4K.

- There's a certain Evian water spray that you might have to borrow from Maylene if you want some nice skin. - I do miss the 720p days webcam where your face was just so blurred and smoothed. My God. - You can see every fucking pixel on your face. - Does Aki make you take care of your like skin, face? - I do skincare routine now. - Do you? - I do now. - Who got you into it? - Well, it's okay. What happened was that when I was doing 4K and I was like,

I was doing streams. People were commenting on my skin a lot more. - Okay, so it is the upgrade to 4K. - Yeah, literally the upgrade to 4K. - Fuck it, everyone's gonna be commenting on our skin now, I swear to God. - So then I asked a friend, I was like, "Hey, I know you're really into skincare." Obviously a girl. And they were, I was like, "Hey, you know stuff, right? "Tell me which stuff to use." They were like, "Say no more, I've got like 500 Korean products." - Right, right, right. - I'm like, "Wait, so there's like an order?" And there's like, "I have to do like six things." But sometimes I forget.

but it's really long. I have to put like a face mask on and then I've used that for like 15 minutes, take that off and then put like three different lotions on. - There's a reason why I grow out a beard, is to hide my pores. - I have really, really bad bags though. And I think that's like just very unlucky. And I use like an anti bag serum and I swear it just makes my eyes- - Anti bag serum? - It makes my eyes just go like this, bro. I'm like,

- I've got like really bad bags as well. It's genetic as well. So it's like, sometimes I have a good night's sleep, great night's sleep. I go in camera and be like, "You're gone, you're getting enough sleep. What's going on there?" And I'm like, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Mom, dad, why'd you have to give me these jeans?" - The bags under the eyes is a symbol of how hard the grind for YouTube is.

That's what I told my audience. I'm like, "I'm on the grind, bro." - I'm an entrepreneur. - Sleepless nights, as you can see. - No, like when I do have sleepless nights, then I look like a fucking zombie. And then people are just like, "Oh, this is a fucking necromancer right here." But like, even on my best days, I still have like really bad bags. - I just imagine that people who are like, "Connor, you have bags." I'm like, "Fuck off, like you don't have bags." - Yeah, right? Like you have the most perfect eyes. - Do you really want me to be perfect? Is that, I don't want to be perfect.

I don't have to deal with that shit. I'm barely trying to keep my skincare routine in check and it's barely doing anything. I don't even know if it's doing anything. - Yeah, that's what I've tried doing a skincare routine and I stuck on it for a month and I'll be honest, didn't notice a difference at all or didn't feel too much of a difference. Maybe felt like,

- A bit of a difference, but I don't know if it was like a placebo or not. - I feel like there are a lot of businesses made for our insecurities. You know what I mean? - No shit. - And so, you know, Maylene came to me, our producer, you all know, and was like, "Hey Connor, do you wanna go to this salon "that my friend owns in Japan?"

where they like do skincare stuff. - Right. - And then, so I have like, like I said before, I have a hemophilia, so I can't have like anything internal bleeding happen to me. Generally, I think most people don't want that too. - No, no, no. - That's normally like a big no-no. But I literally can't have anything that even risks it. - Yeah. - And so this, one of the skincare things is like may cause internal bleeding and I'm like,

- What's skincare going on here? - It's internal bleeding. - How does something maybe cause internal bleeding? - So the first time I was like, no, no, no. - May cause organ failure, but you'll look great. - So the first time I was like, no, no, no, no, no, I'm not doing that. And then afterwards they were like, you should try it. It's not really that bad. It's just the whole medical thing of it might, you know? I'm like, all right, fine, fuck it. I guess I did it. So what it was is that like, it was like electrocution.

It was like plasma as Maylene. Maylene laughs 'cause she's like, "It's wrong, Connor." Basically, it was called a plasma shower, which isn't very comforting. - That sounds like those horrible punk bands. - That sounds like an old from a League of Legends character or something like that. - It's literally like an electric rod or something that touches your face. And I think it strips your skin. I don't really know what it's doing, but when it would touch me in certain places, my face would go like, fucking twitch.

- It's literally like the frog legs experiment. - It smelled like burning. And I was like, what is this? - Did you just get tricked into doing electroshock therapy? - I think they burned my face and I paid a hundred bucks for it. And then they did something else, which was like a vacuum and like fluid. And it felt really fucking weird. And it was like, they were doing it on my face. It was going in my ear cavities. I'm like, how much?

- How much is skincare worth it? Like at this point I was like, I don't think this, however good my face looks, I don't think it's worth this. - Dude, like I used to have horrible acne in high school. So compared to then, I'm taking this. - Who didn't have horrible acne in high school? - But I had like, mine was so bad that like, did you ever use like Proactiv?

- It's like that really famous anti-acne. That says that if you have acne, just use that for a month and you'll be completely clear. - I did use it, didn't do shit. - Yeah, didn't do shit for me. I was like, I didn't do shit. So then my parents were like, all right, I found a stronger option and just tried the stronger options. Nothing fucking works. So I had to go to the dermatologist and literally take drugs for it. - Did it work? - It worked. I mean, now my face is clear now. So I'm just like, compared to that,

I'll take these paws. - Fuck, I had horrible acne. I just dealt with it. - Really? - And then I was just like- - What do you mean you just dealt? Oh, you just let it happen. - Just laughed at it, yeah. I mean, I also, I think working at McDonald's didn't help. - Oh yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - The deep fat fryer, I swear, dude, that shit turned my like pepperoni face into like all like gigas. - Yeah, McDonald's kitchens are like 95% oil humidity, right? - That like kicked it into overdrive. I don't know when it went, but early YouTube, you can see I had like fuck tons of spots.

- Right. - You weren't that sporty when I met you though. - No dude, I mean, when you watch this episode go live, I'm sure Mudan's found a fucking picture of me looking like, I don't know, like a puss fucking machine. I don't know. - I don't think you were that sporty when I met you either. - I met you when I was like 21 though. - Okay. - So I think by then it started calming down. - Yeah, yeah. - But yeah, when I was like 19, it was- - Yeah, I'm glad I started YouTube after all of my acne went away 'cause God.

- I can't imagine. - 'Cause the thing about- - I'm fat and I had acne. - 'Cause the thing about skincare routine, you know, like, 'cause we all care about optimization and all that kind of shit, right? There's just something about going my entire life, having like taking five minutes to get ready in the morning and then adding a skincare routine on top of that. And then you like quadrupling that time in the morning

Not even called you, but you add like an extra half an hour to an hour sometimes per morning. And I'm just like, is it worth this time effort that I'm putting into? Is it making a difference? I don't know. - That's the reason why I wanted short hair for a long time. 'Cause I just like, dude, it's like one wipe of the towel, your hair's dry. That shit feels so good. When you get a clean, like a haircut and it's quite short and you just dry hair. You're like, all right, I'm ready. - I mean, that's why I decided to get rid of like my really, really long hair that I had the beginning of trash days. 'Cause like some mornings I wake up and I'm like, why is my hair still damp?

- Yeah, now I should have bristle. - Like your hair moisture should never be part of your routine that you have to like,

and be aware of because that's when I know I need to get a haircut. When I started noticing that my hair is still wet when I want to do something else and I'm just like, well, I guess it's time to get a haircut 'cause it's getting way too much effort to like gel and dry. And that's why I have a huge respect for anyone who has long hair and has to like deal with that shit. And I don't know, how long did you have your long hair for?

- Way too long. I think I had it for like six months. - Six months? - Yeah, like it probably went down to like maybe around here. - Yeah, I mean that was during the trash taste days as well. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Early trash taste days. - Early trash taste days. - But yeah, once I cut it, I was like, God, why did I ever have that hair? It was so horrible to manage, especially 'cause I had it in like the summer as well. So it was just like a fucking sauna on my head and I fucking hated it. Yeah, never again, never again. People miss it. People are like, oh, I want the Jesus hair back. I'm like, no you don't.

- No you don't. - Oh no. - It's disgusting. - How did you guys figure out kind of like, when's the first time you figured out what kind of haircut you wanted? 'Cause I went through like my entire life as a kid. - Yeah, we've seen your haircuts. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just kind of like didn't know. Obviously put up the picture. I did know how to take care of my hair. Is it obvious? Is it obvious? - How the fuck did you style that shit?

- You know what? The reason I styled my hair like this is because it was the hairstyle that took the least amount of effort to style. - Fuck off, man. - Because when my hair was that short, my hair just naturally spikes up when it's short. So all I need to do is get a bit of gel, put it in,

- And it's done. - If you did like, you'd have blown away earlier if you did a, how do you style his hair? Like I'm saying like, you'd have blown up like a year. - How to get that Sasuke hair cut in three seconds. - It would have been worth it. - How the hair doesn't exist. - It wouldn't be worth it. Cause it would have been a one minute video. - Yeah, exactly. - Couldn't get the 10 minute ad revenue for that. - Step one gel, step two whoop.

- You could have a 10 million view short right now if you did that. Upload it to Giggit right now. - Maybe I'll make a TikTok. - No, don't do that. - YouTube short, YouTube short. - Have you ever thought about starting a TikTok? - No. - I'm already burnt out with all the shit I've been doing, so I can't do TikTok.

I have respect for people who like start TikToks now and do content creation and all that shit on the side. It's like, I barely have enough time to fucking upload on my main channel. - Yeah, as a kid, I thought like, oh, you know, old people, parents, they just don't know how to use the new technology, new social media. And like, as I've grown older, I've realized that's not the case at all. It's just, we just don't have the time to get into them or learn how they work. And that's just the end all be all. Like your parents could probably use

everything you use, they just don't have the time or energy to get into something new and they just rather stick with something comfortable, right? - I think I did open TikTok one time and I was gonna make a video on it, like actually using it. And I got like five minutes in and I was like, what the fuck is editing? And I was like, I was so confused. I was like, I don't like this. I'm not used to this. I'm scared of this. Maybe that's how boomers feel. I was like, oh, what is this?

- Unfamiliar territory, delete. - I mean, I'm sure I could have learned it if I spared the time, but I was just like, oh fuck this. - It's a worth though. - 'Cause like it took me long, took me this long to just learn fucking YouTube and Twitter. And that's like, I feel TikTok's adding like so many extra layers, which I appreciate when there's a good TikTok meme because like a lot of TikTok I see is shit. But like when you see a good TikTok meme, there's nothing that compares to the fucking levels of,

I can't even explain it. There's so many levels of just meme and internet culture

like condensed into such a short period of time. - I've probably seen some of the funniest shit come from TikTok. There was this one thing, I don't know if you saw it. It was where this guy was doing a TikTok with his like, he was like introducing his girlfriend. - The Star Wars day one. - Today is my birthday and I'm gonna introduce to you my girlfriend. And then it's literally like the whole hostage situation. It's so good. - And then it just like an extra layer just keeps getting added every time. And it just goes so far beyond what you thought it would that.

I just think it was fucking genius. When TikTok's like that, I fucking love TikTok. Everything else, I'm an absolute boomer when it comes to TikTok. 'Cause what I will say is that like content, the content algorithm in TikTok seems to be so far beyond other platforms where it's so easy to find content that suits your tastes. Whereas, I don't know, with YouTube now, it's just,

YouTube seems to be going through a transition period where it doesn't really know what it wants to recommend you. Should it recommend you shorts or long videos? It doesn't know anymore because the internet is kind of switching around. - It's also 'cause YouTube's just trying to compete with literally every other social media out there. So like when they added like the whole like Instagram stories replica as well, I don't even know what those were fucking called. Like they were like,

- There was that and then the community posts literally just Twitter. - Remember when stories were just Snapchat and then Instagram had stories and then Twitter had stories and then YouTube has stories and everything has stories now. - Everything has stories. - I hate the stories on Twitter. I hate them. - The fleets you mean? - The fleets, I fucking think that they're so garbage. - I used it once and I was like, all right, I hate it. I never use that again. - I never look at my friends ones. I never post any. I'm just like, get that shit out of here. It's taking up real estate on my app.

- It's like another shit post I could be seeing. It's that amount of space that's covered up by fleets. - I feel like, do I really need my tweets to delete? Like I'm not really that like into it. Like I don't think they need to be deleted. Like that's just save it. - I already have like old tweets delete automatically from my thing anyway. So it makes it completely obsolete. - Who wants them to be deleted in 24 hours? 'Cause no one's looking at it anyway. If it was a tweet that got deleted in 24 hours, I could kind of understand what that would be useful for. Like if I'm posting, oh, I'm going live on my Twitch.

I have it deleted in six hours. That makes sense. But if, why does it in a completely different section? I don't want to, I don't know. - Yeah, have you seen that? Have you seen the Twitter live streams as well? - Well, yeah. And then also Twitter just copied Clubhouse with the, well, with essentially the whole app and just put it in Twitter, which I think it actually suits more, but I don't need it. - Is that what that is? 'Cause I keep getting notifications of like a certain artists I follow being like- - Starting a space. - Yeah, they started a space. - Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's just,

- I hate it because I didn't know what it was. And like some people who I like, I'm a big lurker online, right? And some people who I was following started like this, you know, space thing. I joined it and it was like, Gigguk has joined the room. I was like, fuck, get that snow. They don't need to know.

- I hate that. - No lurking for you. - I just, I don't know if I'm the boomer here when I just don't like some of the new features they add. I can't figure out if I'm just being unreceptive to the new thing or it's actually terrible. Like I don't know anymore. - Yeah. - 'Cause sometimes,

- Is it me that changed or is it the children? - Because sometimes it turns out to be really good and I like it, but then it's just not integrated well enough in the start and I'm not really into it. - 'Cause I remember I was like that with Instagram stories as well when I first started. I was like, what is this? Deletes in 24 hours? What the fuck's the point of this? And now I'm just like, all right, I've been uploaded to my story, let's go. - Now I think stories are better than posts. - Yeah, now these stories are great. - But yeah, maybe, I don't know, maybe we should fucking

I don't know. - Yeah, it's probably the boomer kind of- - Probably a boomer. - It's probably a 24 year old boomer thing. - Yeah, yeah. - What can I say? But you know how we were officially boomers now because we've held a press event. That's how we know. - We have. We're with actual probably boomers that have been on the same stage as us. - I go back on the boomers. They're like really important people. - Yeah, right. Legitimate government people. - Oh, oh fucking hell. - Fuck. - Okay. - Yeah, we say boomers, but actual official,

like political, like important people have been on the stage. - Yeah. - Right? - I mean, you can just tell, I mean, if you guys went onto the FCCJ channel, which a lot of you guys did, I think we had like 4,000 people watching us when normally I think they have like

- Yeah, a lot of the comments are really confused. They're like, what is this? Can somebody explain what happened here? - I think we were also really confused as well. - Yeah, so I guess we can explain what happened. - What is the FCC, Jay Connor? - The Foreign Correspondence Club of Japan, correct? - Yes. - Which I believe is just essentially the foreign press. It's like an organization for the foreign press in Japan. And a guy reached out to us, he was the interviewer called Fred.

And he was like, "Hey guys, I'm writing an article about YouTubers in Japan, foreign YouTubers, talking about like depicting Japan." And I thought, to be fair, that's a pretty good article. 'Cause I mean, I feel like most of the younger generation are probably getting a lot of the information about Japan from us or Chris or, you know. - Yeah. - I know I got way more of it from that than the guys. 'Cause most of the guys are like, "Oh, you should check out the Kiyomizudera temple in Kyoto."

And then go, you know what I mean? Like it's super generic. No, I want to see someone like do something really fucking unique. - I mean, like he asked us the question about, you know, travel guides, right? And I just, when he asked me that question, I just thought who breeds travel guides anymore? - No, no. - Boomers. - You say that, but even my parents now, they've gone, they were like, "Oh, I've watched this fellow, you know, called abroad in Japan." I'm like, "Oh fuck."

- Oh God, of course you are. And even a lot of these travel guides cite people like abroad in Japan, which is really funny now. Instead of actually finding their own shit, like Chris found this really fucking cool thing, go and check it out. - Japan, YouTube, of course more. - But anyway, so he reached out to us and he showed us the article

And it looked really legit and it was gonna be in number one Shinbun, I think it's called. - Shinbun, yeah. - Which is a paper here in Japan. - Yeah. - And as we all know, we all need, we need a bit more like official backing 'cause two of us here are verified on Twitter and one isn't. - Fuck off.

- The reason I got verified is because I had submitted the articles that were written about me and the interviews that I've done. But obviously someone here hadn't had any articles written about him yet. - But now we got an article about Crash Chase. - I have articles, I just didn't submit them. I submitted my Wikipedia, which wasn't good enough for Twitter verification. - Of course.

- What was it? The day that you found out you guys had a Wikipedia, you uploaded pictures for each other. - Yeah, we uploaded. - We spent literally like half an hour of this trash recording just trying to update these guys' wikis. - Somebody made a Wikipedia page and it's very meticulous and I was very grateful for it. But I was like, why didn't they upload a picture? I feel like this is very easy. Like just upload a picture and then it got removed anyway.

- Yeah, I was like, they're legitimate looking pictures. - They are pictures. - Yeah, I mean, we added each other's pictures and then like less than 12 hours later it was gone. I'm like, what the fuck? How do you get a picture on Twitter? No, Twitter, Wikipedia, fuck. - And yeah, so they reached out to us and he was like, "Hey, do you wanna come and give a, "do record a like pseudo podcast on this YouTube channel?" And we checked that out and we were like, whoa.

- It's like some heavy topics on this channel. - Yeah, I think the week he sent it was something like LGBT rights in Japan. I'm like, that's pretty serious stuff. And then you want us to come on and just clown and then ask us about pizza fucking crust?

- You can tell that the Trash Taste viewers were like, had invaded the chat because like we were having this very official press conference and then like I get asked about pizza crust. - Yeah, literally the first question, it was like, all right, we got some questions

from the audience right now. And the first question here is, Garth, what do you think about pizza crust? - I just find it funny how just utterly unprepared they were for like the amount of questions that were gonna be sent. Because I remember the person running it just came up with like a huge stack of questions. And the interview looked at this being like, this is more questions than I've ever seen in my life. What is going on right now? - It was like 20 pieces of paper.

Here's the questions and the guy's like, "What the fuck?" - It was quite fun though. - I mean, yeah, it was a cool experience. - And we were like, and the guy, I remember the guy was like, you know, "Oh, you know, it's on a official thing. Like, you know, FCCJ is a professional thing that does a lot of like, you know, press conferences and stuff like that. But like, you guys can just come casually because you know, we're just gonna do it like casually like you guys do in the podcast." And we're like, "We're wearing suits, bats."

- We're wearing the suits. - I mean, like we had, there was that wall of the previous people that had done FCCJ press conferences. 'Cause they've only just started live broadcasting them recently, if I understand correctly. So, but they've been doing them for like years and years, but most of them have been privates. And like, we saw the Dalai Lama on there. - Hayao Miyazaki was there. - Hayao Miyazaki. Did I see Trump on there as well? - Trump was there. Like a very young Trump was there. - You said the president of Thailand had done it.

- Yeah, the ex prime minister of Thailand. I didn't know this 'cause like I saw a picture there and I was like, it looks kind of familiar. And I was like, where do I recognize him from? So I snap it, send a picture to my mom. And he was like, oh, that's the ex prime minister of Thailand. So I'm just like, fucking- - Only the important people. - Fucking brilliant. What's going on here? - And then imagine that wall

And then the literal front of the FCCJ building is this giant billboard that says like, "Tonight on the FCCJ, trash taste." And it was so fucking fucking weird. 'Cause it's like,

we should not belong on this billboard. - Yeah, I think as well, the journalist Fred was like, I want it to just be like a normal trash this episode. And I'm like, I don't think we can do it. - That's not how it works. - I don't think we can just cut up here and just do a normal trash. I think I'm gonna have to be polite. - Like, was he expecting us to like rock up and be like, "Hey dickhead, let's go."

- Yeah, 'cause like I saw a lot of the comments be like, this is the most calmest and most polite I've ever seen the boy as well. Yeah, if you'd seen the stage that we were on, you'd probably act the same as well, honestly. - If you knew who was on this stage before us, then you would probably act like that as well. - I saw a comment that really made me laugh and it was like, the water man's doing God's work, not a glass empty for a single second. I was so awkward as well, 'cause we're just sitting there and then this guy creeps over with water.

like bend over and I'm like, oh, I feel so bad for you. I don't need water. - I was like, why are you topping me up? I'm basically full. - Also, Jerry, why did you have to go to the toilet mid sentence? You couldn't have waited until you finished speaking. - That was hilarious. - Okay, like I dead ass was like holding onto that shit for dear life. - You could have done it before you started the sentence. - For like 30 minutes. - After you started the sentence. - No, I was like, I'm gonna go for as long as I can. And I think about an hour

- I was like an hour into it. Cause it was like a two hour, I think, live event. - Yeah, it was two hours. - About an hour and 10 in, I was like, I'm gonna die. Like my bladder is about to explode. But I can hold on. It's like 50 minutes. If I just concentrate on talking and just listening, I can get through it.

- I didn't even know what I was, what question did I get? - You were actually getting asked like a serious question about Japan. - Yeah, you were in the middle of a serious question and you're just like, sorry, can I go to the toilet? Didn't even finish your like, you just went. And I was like, Joey, what the fuck? - I literally got like mental whiplash because I was like, oh, this is Joey being proper and professional. But now no way, just busts out the, can I go to the toilet? - You can hear the very moment my heart just snaps and I'm just like, you have to go.

I was like, I'm gonna cut this into short. I have to fucking go. Otherwise I'm about to piss on stage in front of 4,000 people. - I'll be honest, when you asked to go to the toilet, I looked at you and I was like, should I do it?

I was like, "Should I do it?" - No, hold, hold, hold. - I was like, I'm with you guys and I'm like, "I can't be the only one who's busting for a piss." Like, Khan should be dying right now. - I was dying. Like inside, like my leg was like going at like fucking sonic speeds. It was just like, "Come on, come on." - Yeah, that's why I was like, "Waterboy, if you come near me one more time and fill up that glass, I am going to kill you."

I don't need, I have stopped drinking water for the past 30 minutes 'cause if I drink one more sip of water, I am going to explode. Stop filling up my glass. - You could've just been like, can you hand me the bottle? Just give me a bottle, boss man. - I just drink it and then slowly bring the glass down. - This is gonna be a really good question, but can you get under the table?

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- I'm gonna ask the question. - Fuck it. - He said it was like, yeah, this is the first time it's ever happened in the history of the FCCJ or something, right? - I'm like bullshit. There's gotta be another Asian person who has a bladder just as small as mine. - Surely someone else there out there has a small bladder like us. - I take his word for it, Jay. I think you ruined a press conference. - Or I made history by being the only person- - There's a lot of people who've made history that's not good. - A lot of people made history on the FCCJ, but no one's ever taken a piss break in the middle of one.

- I gotta ask, what did you guys write in the guest book? 'Cause I remember, so we had to sign a guest book, right? And so every guest who's been on there has like signed it and write some kind of message or something. And we had some really like deep important messages, you know, some talking about some,

- Very hot political topics right now. I think one message I saw said something like, "We must listen to the voice of the people. "The people will not go unheard and there's only so long "that we can stop listening to them." And saw something along those lines. And then I turned the page and it's just my message being like, "Senjogahara, best girl. "Gig up, 2021."

- At least you came up with a kind of funny one. I saw that and I was like, I can't top that. - What did you write? - I think I wrote something like,

- I like anime, yes I do. - Only the biggest of brains. - Is that the same thought process that you went through when you came up with the anime man? - Yeah, literally. - I like anime, yes I do. - I like anime, yes I do. Joey the anime and Bissinger 2021. - I just put, I don't know what I'm doing here.

- That's literally all I wrote. - I mean, that's probably the most honest. - I don't know what I'm doing here, Connor. - Connor, not even your full name, just Connor. - I was like, I don't know what I'm doing here.

- It was a great experience. It was super weird to be on something that official. And I don't even think like our fans knew how official it was when they were watching. - We didn't even say anything about it until like 10 minutes. So we were like, should we tweet out that we're doing this? It's been live streamed. - Now it's the most viewed video on their channel as well. - Probably by the time this video is live, it's well over half a million views.

- I think so, yeah. - Which is pretty insane. - I mean, it was just basically like a "Trash Taste" episode, but just like polite. - Polite. - Yeah, the gentlemen. - I did like all the memes which are like, "Oh damn, pog to the new studio set up." - Damn, that's where all the budget went. - Yeah, that's where all the budget went. - Yeah, it wasn't the "Trash Taste" episode, it was the "Garbage Taste" episode. - I remember I saw that camera and I was like weak. What a weak camera. One camera angle? - One camera angle. - Sony handheld? What is this?

- Come on, get a real camera. - Manual zoom in, what is this? - Yeah. - I was like, where's the lights? Where's the lighting? Come on, come on, look at this.

I'm like, this floor has a restaurant in it. You guys can afford a restaurant, but not a good camera? Seriously? Come on, come on. I'm kidding. - We were really honored to be invited on that. And we realized much, like, I think it kind of set in much later. I was like, oh, I think we actually did something like pretty cool and legit. - No, I think it's, I don't know how many YouTubers can say they've done something like that. And I think we did a good job. We didn't embarrass ourselves too much. - Yeah, I'd say so. I'd say,

- We were, I mean, we are way more reserved than on our usual, you know, fucking monkey mode podcast or whatever. But yeah, it was a great experience. And one of the things we've been doing in between building this set, I guess. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Among many other things. - Yeah. It was like, what else have you guys been up to? - Nothing. - Building this office has taken so goddamn long. - Honestly. - Yeah, it's taken a while. - You guys will get the full scope of it in the after dark vlog, which I think,

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like drawing of it for this. 'Cause if I show you actually the route, you'll know where. - You know where our studio is. - Kind of just doxing where we live. - You'll know where my studio is and where I go to school. So I'm not gonna do those. But essentially this guy took what should have been a 10 minute journey and did it 45 minutes. So what's up with that? But I mean, this is the thing, right? So I, you know, what happened was is that this wasn't like a miscommunication fault or anything because

I didn't tell him where to go. The app tells him where to go. 'Cause I was using a ride sharing app, right? So literally when he picks me up, he has to say, "Oh, okay, this is where I pick him up. "This is where I'm going." And then when he says he's picked me up, it'll tell him on the thing where to go. And I got in the car and I saw where it was telling him to turn and do all that. And it was where I told him to go.

And for some reason, this guy just ignored the turn. And I was like, okay, whatever. Like, he probably knows a better route, right? Maybe he knows, you know? 'Cause he was like 80 or 90, very, very, very old. I was like, yeah, he knows the streets better than the maps, I'm sure. - All right, all right. - I'm sure, I'm sure.

And so then he misses the next turning. And I'm like, all right, okay. Misses the next turning. And I'm like, okay, this is getting a little weird. - Must be some local version. - And then he misses another turning. And this is getting to the point where I'm like, all right, this man is just straight up going the wrong way. So I asked him in like terrible Japanese, I'm like, where are you going?

And he said somewhere in like Roppongi, which is like totally not where I was going. And I was like, oh. - Like literally the opposite. - Like the opposite way of which where I was going. And I'm like, no, no, no, don't go that way. Go the other way. And then he was like, what, what, where do you wanna go?

And I told him where I wanted to go. And he was like, "What?" And I showed the app and he's like, "Oh, let me put my glasses on." I'm like, "You're driving without your glasses on? "You can't read this and you're driving?" They do this every time. Every time, it annoys me to death about taxi drivers here. Every time I show them on my phone where to go, they have to put glasses on. And I'm like, "If you can't read,

- Why are you driving without these glasses on? Like, what is this, Blurz? What is this, like you're playing Osu? Like, what are you doing? - No wonder you can't see the fucking navigation system. - Yeah, so he completely goes the wrong way and I eventually get to like figure out, to explain to him where I wanna go. And it was just 'cause there was some weird thing with the address that I put in where it wasn't quite what I said it was. But even though the address and the thing was still correct, but I had to then reconfirm to him

that I was going to the place where it told him to go. Which is like, why do you even ask me? Don't talk to me. Just take me where I wanna go. - Are you sure you wanna go to the place you specify? - This is what I don't get. I told you where I wanna go. Maybe you can confirm. And I said, yes. And then he's like, what, what, what?

I'm losing my mind, right? So then, you know, the thing is racking up to be pretty expensive. Cause this is like a 45 minute journey is pretty fucking expensive. - Especially in Tokyo. - Yeah, yeah. Cause you know, the journey I was gonna take was just 10 minutes and it was supposed to be like 10, 10, 15 bucks. No, but not a big deal. - Yeah. - It turned into like a 45, $50 ride. And I'm like, hold the fuck up. And also after I eventually told him where to go, I was pretty stressed out. And I was like, I don't know. And I was on, I was trying to watch YouTube videos and I was looking at my phone and then suddenly the guy just emergency stops.

So my fucking bag goes flying, my water bottle goes flying. I'm like, "Yo, what the fuck?" - This is like the best bit. - I was like, "Listen, I don't know if you're going for the worst taxi speed on any percent here. I don't know what you're trying to do. You are literally fucking everything up here." - It's like dead ass, like a GTA player. - He nearly crashed into the taxi and it was unfortunate 'cause I couldn't see if it was his fault or not. It looked like it wasn't his fault.

So I didn't blame him that, but it was also just kind of annoying. - Manages out here playing crazy taxi. - Yeah, he was literally playing crazy taxi. And then immediately, okay, after this as well, I think because then he was panicked because he was like, he'd taken me wildly off route. He nearly crashed the car. - He wildly fucked up. - He pretty much fucked up everything a taxi driver could fuck up. So he started speeding.

to get me to where I needed to go. And I did not feel comfortable with this man's speed after he just nearly crashed a fucking taxi. So I was like, I asked him, I was like, can you go a little, in Japanese, can you go a little slower? And then he panically turned his full head around. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. - He's like, hold on, I gotta put a glass on the cheek, the speedometer. - Normally, you know, I normally am fully accepting of that kind of- - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Oh yeah, okay, got you, got you. He was like, wait, what did you say?

He's going like 80 on a 50 road. I'm like, stop, no, no, no, no. I'm not gonna say anything. I'm not gonna say anything. And then I was like, this is the worst fucking taxi ride in my goddamn life. And so every taxi driver in Japan has like their full company information and name and everything on the thing. So I took a picture of it. And my phone has the, in Japan, every phone has to make a noise when you take a picture. It shutters.

So my phone did that. So I think he heard it. I don't know. So anyway, he finally got me to where I was, you know, one piece. I had to like check myself when I got out the car. I'm like, am I live, right? And as I was getting out, he like slowly pulls his wallet out.

And I'm like, "You're trying to bribe me to not complain?" - Is that even legal? - Probably not legal. - I think so. He didn't tell me, "Don't say anything." I think what he was trying to pay the difference of what he went over, 'cause it worked out to be around what he went over. So like the fee should have been like,

like $15, it was like 40. So he gave me like 30 bucks and I was like, fine, you know what? I don't wanna complain to your company. I don't wanna have to do that. 'Cause I wanted to get my money back from the company. 'Cause I was like, this is fucking terrible. I don't know if that's me being a Karen. Like, I just think that I don't wanna get ripped off. - No, I mean,

- I don't think it's a Karen to be like, I almost died, can I have money back? - Yeah, 'cause I do, I hate, I do not, I'll never ever complain about someone who is doing like a job where you don't make much money. 'Cause I'm just like, I don't feel like- - No, I get it. - I don't think you get paid enough to warrant

You losing some money. If I have problems at fast food places, I'll just be like, you know what? It wasn't great. I'll keep it to myself. I'll deal with it. I might leave not a great review, but I won't be super harsh. - You're not gonna be like, where's the manager? - That's the British way to do things. - Again, I don't wanna make someone's life more difficult than it needs. Life is fucking hard enough as it is.

But there's a certain point where I'm like, you have done such an awful job where I think it's okay for me to want my money back. - Yeah, of course, of course. - I feel like taxi is understandable 'cause your life is in their hands as well. - Yeah. - And literally everything was terrible. So I was just gonna complain to the, not to his company first, I was gonna complain to,

the app to see if it, 'cause the app can normally just, 'cause he'll still get paid, I believe, and then they'll just refund me, which is what I wanted. 'Cause fuck the multi conglomerate company. - But instead he just like took out the whole man. - He paid me 30 bucks and I was like, sure. So I gave him five stars. - He's like, I don't speak any English, but you speak this language, right? - Yeah, I think so. - You know what I'm saying. - I was like, you know what? I was like, the man's hustling.

- Fine, fine, fine. - Literally bribed a five-star Uber review from you. - I was like, you know what? The man knew that he fucked up big time and he wanted to try and fix it. I respect it. I'm down. I don't want to go through this. You don't want to go through this. Let's just walk away from this. - You don't speak Japanese, but you speak the ones and zeros. - All I wanted was the difference back. I'm happy to pay the taxi fee. I just don't want to be charged like 30, $40 extra. I don't need to be.

I'm not like, I'm not a fucking- - No, no, I get that. - I'm not a cheap guy. I just don't wanna be ripped off. - No, I feel like taxi drivers here are very aware of that because I mean, most people in Japan, especially in the service industry are fucking super nice. - They don't rip you off. - They do not rip you off at all because I remember I had to take like a pretty long taxi that went via the highway, but there was like really bad traffic there on that day. And so it took like,

I think like 20 minutes longer than the journey should have taken. And the taxi driver, like he told me that he was gonna stop the meter early because he feels bad that they were stuck in traffic for so long, even though they went via the highway. So I'm just like-

- It's not even his fault. - Yeah, that's not even your fault. You're a real one, man. You're a real one. - Yeah, when you taxi, you just gamble, man. 'Cause maybe the highways are congested. That's the risk you take. - That's just part of the risk. And I feel like just taxi drivers or anyone like, it's so weird to me that you can't tip people here. 'Cause out of every country that I've lived in and been to, the one country I've wanted to tip people the most is here in Japan. And it's just like, it's,

- It feels bad because I've gotten some of the best service I ever have anywhere in the world and I can't pay them a bit more to show my appreciation. - I think the only service in Japan that you can actually tip people is Uber Eats.

- But that's just because it's integrated in the app. - But that's just 'cause it's Uber. Uber Eats, which is an international company, right? - I always tip if it's raining. - Oh yeah, I always do, yeah. - I'm like, I feel so bad for that when I order food when it's raining. They turn up at the door fucking soaked and I'm like. - Especially when it's like typhoon season as well. You're just like, damn man. - I'm like, three dollars, okay. - Three dollars for your trouble, sir.

- Oh, fuck. It was such an awful experience. It was just like, and I felt so bad 'cause I was in like, I was trying to optimize it. So I ordered food, like lunch to arrive at the studio for when I was gonna get there. And then I was like, "Jerry, can you get my Uber Eats?" - No, 'cause I was waiting at the studio and Connor was like, "Yeah, I'm 10 minutes away." And I was like, "Cool, I'll see him very soon then."

Like 30 minutes past, I'm like, "Where is he?" - I saw that on the message stream, 'cause I wasn't there at the studio that day. And I was like, "Why is Connor telling Joey to get his food?" Like this white boy getting more privileged every day. - I don't wanna deal with the Uber Eats man. Please get mine. - I can't speak Japanese. Can you get my food for me? - You're only hungry, Joey, so you can do it.

- Jesus Christ, man. - That's why I'm always scared, man, to get on taxis. 'Cause it's like, again, it's like in Japan, 85% of the time they're like over the age of 70. And I just don't know what to expect. It's like, sometimes they're the most like pristine proper, like, you know, fucking.

Batman's assistant levels of like amazing driving. But then sometimes you get people like that, right? Where it's like, you shouldn't be behind a steering wheel. - I had a guy one time I got in the car, she started speaking like fluent English to me and I was like, whoa. - Really? - He's like, are you comfortable with the AC? I'm like, what? What did you say? - In like a really velvety voice. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like the man sounded like Psy from like "Gangnam". - Oh yeah, yeah, I'm Psy.

- Was he old? - No, no, he looked like 30.

- Well, that's like an SSR pull right there. - What are you doing being a taxi driver? - Yeah, I was so confused. I was just so caught off guard by it. I was like, yeah, yeah, it's great. It's great, whoa. 'Cause normally they don't ask you anything. - Normally if someone's below the age of 60, you rarely see someone below the age of 60 be a taxi driver, especially here in Japan. - Oh, I should give you a life hack for if you ever come to Japan and use taxis. They're only ever gonna ask you like two things.

is like where you're going and do you want to use the highway? And that'll always be the second question. Just say yes. Just always say yes. Don't say no. Just, okay, so once you've told them where you're going, right? Like even if you don't understand what the fuck they're saying, all right? So once they figured out where you're going, like yeah. About like five minutes into your drive, they'll turn around and ask you something. Just say yes. 'Cause they're gonna ask you about the highway. - That's just a Japan life hack. If I don't understand what someone's saying, I just say hi.

- Just say hi. Like this, you remember this. If you come to Japan, remember this. He's gonna ask you something two minutes and five minutes into the taxi drive. He's gonna be in the middle of driving. Just say yes. He's asking if you wanna go on the highway. Just say yes. - Like someone could have probably asked me if I could be like an accomplice in a murder and I've said yes to it in Japan. Probably you don't know. 'Cause I've just said yes to everything. Like the only time I know I have to actually pay attention is when they're like, "Are you sure about that?" Did you know?

- Press agree on terms and conditions. Do you know what you just agreed to? - Yeah, they did like a fucking millionaire thing. They're like, "Final answer?" - "Final answer, are you sure it's a yes?" - "Can you repeat that? Oh shit." And then like, even when they repeat that, I'm just like, "Yeah?" - 'Cause on the signs in Japan, on the highways, it just says expressway. So I just assumed they call it expressway too. It's not called expressway.

- They call it what was it? - Kousoku. - Kousoku. - Kousoku. - Kousoku. - Kousoku. - Kousoku. - Kousoku. - Yeah, that's what I said. - Which is direct translation for high fast road. - Ah, okay. - So there you go. - But I was also told that they understand highway. But I was confused, I never said highway 'cause they always say expressway. So I never used, I never said highway, but they'll understand if you say highway. - Yeah, highway. - Second life hack, if you don't know a Japanese word, say it in Katakana. - Yeah, really. - And then. - It'll feel racist, but it's not.

- Yeah, yeah, exactly. - Yeah, so if you don't know, if you can't recast Connor, just say it in the most like racist Japanese accent you can think of and they will maybe understand you sometimes. - Yeah, dude, when I'm streaming in it and I have to say a word like that, people like Pepe laugh, Connor just said it in like a funny accent. I'm like, no, that's literally how they say it. - They won't understand unless I do that. - I love how all these people, yeah, because like everyday words have just become like more and more English now, right? Like, just like, you know, say like,

It's like spicy, right? Like you want spicy food. It's like, no, the Japanese word for it is . - Yeah. - But you could also just say spicy.

- Oh, you can? - Oh, you can? - Yeah. - And it's the exact same thing. - Didn't know that. - It's like sexy. - It's just sexy. - Milk? - It's just milk, right? - 'Cause like I learned, what was it? What was the recent Japanese word? Cafe, which is like . - Yeah, is like the proper Japanese word. - Yeah, but everyone just says cafe here. - Cafe. - Yeah, well, 'cause your grandma will say . - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Your grandma will say , but everyone else will just say cafe. - Everything's becoming English, man. - Yeah, so like I've realized actually like in,

in the place that I am now, it's like more easier just to say yes to everything if you don't fully understand it. 'Cause I remember me and Connor had another taxi experience. - Oh no, this guy fucking, oh, this guy drove me up the wall. - Which was on my birthday night. So after we hung out, we went back to Maylands and we went back to my house pretty late and we all live in the same area. So me and Connor got a taxi back.

And we were, this was like 5:00 AM. We were very drunk and very tired. And so Connor orders a taxi via Didi, which is kind of like Uber. So the address is already in the taxi. - Again, he knows where we go. - He knows where we go. - He literally tells him a pinpoint location, where to go and how to get there.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we get in the taxi and he asks us, "Oh, where do you want to go?" So I didn't know that he already had the address 'cause he did already have the address and it was in his system. So I tell him, "Please go to this address." - Well, I think you said the station near our house. I think that's when he got confused.

'cause now he's like, "Wait, is it the station or the address?" And bear in mind, they're like literally two minutes away from the gym. So I'm like, "Just go there and it'll be all right, buddy." Both of the addresses are in the exact same place. Just go there. And so I think then he started getting really like, he's like,

"Wait, which one though?" And then every five minutes, this man would turn around and ask, "Which one are you going to?" Like, "Oh, here, here, here." And we'd be like, "Yes, yes." - Yeah, and I was trying to explain to him, it's near the station, it's near the station, right? And he was just like, "But it's a different address. "Where do you want me to go?" I was like, "Just go to..." My Japanese wasn't good enough to say, "Go to this exact address." I was just like, "Just go near the station "and we'll direct you." And he was like,

Am I going the right way? - Do these taxi drivers not have like freedom of choice? - It's literally the same road. It's not even remotely far. - It's like a computer trying to run two programs at the same time. It's like, which one do I open first? I don't know. - It's like I literally get, he was like an AI and I just gave him a logic bomb. That's how he acted. And I was just like, and I just thought to myself, I'm like, this is not on the taxi driver because obviously it was just like a language barrier. But I just thought to myself, I should have just said hi.

- Yeah, I should have just said yes. And just said, yes, please go to the address. - You didn't use the life hack. - We did say hi like seven times in a row. And then he still did keep asking. And I was like- - Yeah, because he probably asked like, do you want to go to the station? You're like, hi. Or did you want to go to the house? Hi. - Which one though? - Yeah, we used the life hack. - But also everything we said to him

he was clearly like, you know, he was quite old and his hearing was clearly not great. Everything we said, we had to repeat, but louder. - Yeah. - Yeah. And I felt like some things we said pretty fucking loud. - Yeah. - And he didn't like understand. And I was like, I'm done. - Or maybe that was just like your, like maybe in your guys' drunk mind, you were like, hi. - I was so- - But in reality it was like, ah! - I was very, very sober at this point 'cause I was just trying to sleep. - Right. - And he kept waking us up and I was like,

I'm fine for my life just to get like five minutes of sleep here. - Sydney was sitting next to me. She doesn't remember any of it. She was like, pass the fuck out. - Oh my God. This is like, Sydney kept making it worse. 'Cause Sydney was drunk and going, "Dada ba da." Like Japanese saying things. And we're like, Sydney, shut up. Literally shut up. You are confusing the man.

- She literally kept making it work. I was literally about to be like, "Gon, tell her to get Sydney to shut up." I swear to God. 'Cause she was clearly not even awake and she'd be like, "I'll cook the rice over." And we're like, "We're not even there, we're not even there." She would say like, "Oh, here's fine." Or like, "Keep going." And we're like nowhere near. And she'd be like, "Oh, here's fine." "No, Sydney, Sydney, Sydney, please, please, please." - She was dream Japanese talking in her sleep.

- I found it impressive because it was like, she was speaking Japanese that was off enough that it made no sense in the context that we're in, but it made enough sense that someone would say it in a taxi. - All the correct things you would say in a taxi. - I remember I'd keep going like, Sydney, please stop. Sydney, stop.

- Oh my God. - Yeah, but yeah, we eventually got home after what it felt like two hours or whatever. - So wait, did he drop you off at the station or your house? - Yeah, he did, he dropped me off at the station. - Okay, okay. - He finally came up with a new- - I didn't even wanna try and direct him to my house. I was like, just stop. Just let me out, bro. - Fair enough. - Let me out. Get me out of here. I can't stand this. Jesus Christ. - Yeah, but I mean, that's part of the reason why we're looking to move, right? - Yeah, yeah. - Have we talked about how we are looking to move?

'Cause we've- - Yeah, you've talked about moving, right? - Yeah, you've talked about moving. - I've moved already, yeah, a month ago now at this rate. - Yeah. - I'm currently in the process of, I've applied for a place, just hoping I get, I mean, I found out this week, so I'm praying I get it. - I think re, like doing the whole moving process again has reminded me how much of a nightmare it was the first time to get a place here. And I just didn't realize or I'd forgotten because I had everything set up. Now I'm going through the process again. I'm just like,

- Damn, it was a nightmare and I'd completely forgotten about it. - It's equal parts exciting, equal parts just dread. - And so far it's not been too bad. It's been really annoying being rejected for really petty reasons. That's been quite annoying, but I feel like I'm so used to that now where I'm like, I'm not the right nationality. All right, cool. So I'm kind of used to it, but yeah. - I mean, how many places have you been rejected from so far? Just one, right?

- Two, two, two. - Oh, two. - But some of them were like, not rejections that didn't apply, but some of them were like, "Oh, no, no, no foreigners." - Oh, just straight up. - So is that like a rejection? Do you count that? - No, that's a rejection, I'd say. - 'Cause that's like, I feel like- - That's like 10, 15, right? - Half of them are gone. - Yeah. - Half of the whole Japanese housing market is just like unavailable to you. - I'd say it was like even more than half. Like even if you have the money to pay for this house, you just can't get it.

- I think we talked about this in episode two or something. We talked about how it's fucking impossible for foreigners to rent in Japan. - It's also, I feel like this happens everywhere though. You have to kind of like decide what's important to you and you have to like make sacrifices depending on, even if you have like unlimited budget, there's not gonna be, if you wanna get a house in certain areas, this is not possible in central Tokyo. - Oh yeah, I mean, unless you're actually like buying the property, but you don't have to do that, right?

- Well, the thing is like when I'm looking at houses now, like the first question I ask is, has anyone else applied for this yet? And if the answer is yes, I'm just like, well, that's pretty much my chance, John. - So they didn't tell me this, but apparently if someone else has applied, the odds of you getting like super low, 'cause it's normally just first come first serve. And if the person before you is Japanese, they're probably not gonna get rejected unless they're like super sketch. So if some, yeah, like you said, they took me to see places and half of them had already been applied for it. I'm like, what am I doing here?

- Yeah. - What, so you can, and of course the two places- - Check out this place you probably won't get. - So the first place they took me to visit was Five Houses. And the two that I really, really liked, of course, were the two that had applications. So I was like, great, so now I've fallen in love with two places and I can't fucking help them. - Play a little cock tease. - It is, it is. - So now you've shown me what my standards are and you've taken them away from me. - It's like, this is what you could have if you had a Japanese

- Yeah, hello. - And so then I was like, okay, well, I don't like the other three. And so we could just find new ones. We found new ones, didn't like any of them. And I was like, well, this sucks 'cause now I don't like any of these fucking. And eventually found a few that I kind of liked and I've applied for one that I quite like.

maybe neighbors might be an issue, we'll find out. But I'm gonna just soundproof the room before I move anything in. - Well, again, that's a sacrifice you have to take. It's pretty fucking hard. I mean, I think the one- - I'm gonna have neighbors, yeah. - Yeah, of course. The one sacrifice I took with my place is that it's just slightly kind of out of the way, especially when you go to Tokyo, but everything else is fucking- - It's a great house. - Yeah.

- Yeah, I mean, I'm just planning to put like soundproof panels on the wall and I'm just gonna put them on the side walls and the roof. - Yeah, you got your first noise complaint, didn't you? - I did get a noise complaint, yeah. - After all this time. - I know. I was definitely pushing it to be fair. I think 'cause you know, when I first moved in, I like, we wouldn't even like walk at full speed around the house 'cause I'd heard how careful I had to be. And then I realized, oh, nothing's happening. Oh, so I start walking normally, you know. - So you kept testing the limit. - You slowly get there.

- And then the Apex stream started getting later and later. - The Apex at 2:00 AM streams did push it over the limit. - I don't know what it was that did it because when I got the complaint, I hadn't done any late night streams that I would say were loud. Like I think they'd only done one and it was very, very quiet one. I know it was 'cause I was just talking.

So I wondered what did it? 'Cause there was somewhere I was full on shouting at like 2:00 AM. - Yeah. - And I didn't get it. - Well, I mean, we got a noise complaint at our place, but a week- - Speed run. - Yeah, but a week after the actual event that had happened. So I'm just like, why am I getting the complaint now after a week? - I think as it goes to the agency, then the agency tells you, right? - But the agency like has my number on speed dial. So it's like, they could easily have just like

called me the next morning being like, "Were you loud last night?" - They could have been like, "Yeah, we got a snitch, bro." It's kind of cringe. - No, no, because I was so confused. - We got you, bro. Don't worry about it. - No, legit, I was like, "Who said it?" I was literally like, "Leave Nisa from taking..." I'm like, "Who sent you?" - They won't tell you. I understand privacy reasons, but also I'd like to know so that I can kind of like,

maybe put some stuff on that. - Right, right. Because like, if I know who it is, at least tell me, 'cause they didn't even tell me if it was like someone from the same building. - Tell me who's a little bitch so I can soundproof that sound. - No, no, because like, if I knew it was like, say the neighbors downstairs, then I could be like, oh, okay, maybe I should, you know, do some padding on the floor or something like that. Or like thick ass carpet or something to avoid it. Or if it's like people across the road, well then it's like, well, I can't do fucking anything about that. So I guess we'll just fucking.

- What is this, the SCCJ? - Go on, go on, go on, Megan. You gotta be the water boy. - But like, if I knew who the neighbor was, then I could take precautions and work so that I don't have to- - I also understand that if it was me complaining, I probably wouldn't wanna be named, but also you could maybe- - I don't need to know the specific person. I just need to know, is it a neighbor below me?

Is it someone across the road? Is it in this building? I don't know. - I guess they're worried that you might go to him and be like, yo, open the fuck, why are you complaining little bitch? Why are you complaining? - Stay to my face motherfucker. - But then also you could be like, hey man, could I ask like when you need me to be quiet? - Yeah. - You know, is there like stuff going? 'Cause like, you know,

- If my neighbors, dude, they can shout all they fucking want. I don't give a fuck. But if I was, if I had a kid or something, then maybe I'd be like, "Hey, keep it down after 10." - That's the problem. It's like, yeah, because if that was me and I was getting noise complaints from say someone from upstairs, I just fucking go up to them and be like,

Hey, I'm not like gonna snitch on you or something. Like, can we just like talk it out so that we can come to some kind of mutual agreement? But in Japan, no one fucking does that. They're just like, "Ring ring, help me please." - But I asked, I asked like, what can they do? Like, what can they do with this complaint? What happens? They were like,

they can like technically get you evicted if they like tried really freaking hard, especially if you're a foreigner. 'Cause I mean, you know, like that from my last place, that woman downstairs tried to do that. - I'm like how- - Until I Nihongo Joe. - I'm like how fucking hard do they have to try to get me evicted though? Like is it like, how much effort does it have to go through? And I think they said it was like, it was like a lot of work and it probably wouldn't happen.

So I was like, well, I'm not that bad. I'm not shouting all the time. I have turned my volume down during the stream. - Unless you're not doing like construction at like 2:00 AM. I don't think they'll kick you out. - Fucking get the drill out. - Who's gonna complain now? - Shawshank redemption in this shit, waiting for the lightning to strike. But I think I've done like, they clearly don't care during the day 'cause I've done like voice lines during the day where I'm full on screaming. - No, they don't care during the day. It's only at night.

- I bet some neighbors do care during the day. They're like pompous neighbors. They're like, "Oh God, I'm uncomfortable." - Maybe on a weekend. - What is that? Voice actor? I just thought someone was getting murdered up there. - The agent who was finding me my apartment was like, "I watched your YouTube." I didn't tell her my YouTube, but they had to know my company. And so I think she just went on the company site, saw my name, she watched my YouTube video. I was like, "Oh God."

- Well, you just got RU YouTuber. - Yeah, I was like, "Oh, cool. "What did you want to watch?" And she was like, "I watched you drinking alcohol." And I was like, "With Chris." And I'm like, "Oh my God." What a terrible introduction to me. - Here's what I do for a job, I get sloshed on camera. - You filmed this in your house. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. She was like, "So do you film all the videos?" I'm like, "Oh."

I'm like, it's very rarely. - I go to studio. - I film a lot outside. I rarely film indoors. Honestly, I'm barely talking, frankly. - That's how I got my place. I literally had to tell the people who I was applying it to. - You can't tell them anything. - 'Cause they, the person who owns my place, watched my YouTube 'cause they had to know as well 'cause I was applying under my company. So they were like, "So are all your videos filmed in YouTube?"

And I'm just like, no, no, no, no. Most of these are outside. And they're like, okay. - To be fair, I never record past like 5:00, 6:00 PM anyway. It's just streams, which again, I mean, it's not much better. - I remember you said before in London, you used to record like 2:00 AM or 3:00 AM. - My neighbors didn't give a fuck though. But then again, they were blasting Peppa Pig through the wall like 2:00 AM. So I don't really.

- One kid is watching "Death of a Bigger Toy". - It's like, "Mom, put on the episode. "This one's a banger. "Turn it up, Mom, turn it up." - I don't know if it's like a lot. - It's my favorite OP. - I don't know if it's 'cause I've done like a kind of like,

not great area of London. I read it as a mutual understanding where like no complaints, no police. Because my neighbors had like 10 people living in a house that had like two bedrooms. So I don't know how much police they wanted over there. That's why I'm pretty sure they never ever said anything. 'Cause one time, multiple times actually, I opened the door to get a package from them and it looked like, you know, like just like so many fucking people were living in there. It was crazy. I was like,

It was very weird. So I think that's why they never complained. - Yeah. - And also the walls are thicker. - Yeah. - So it's whatever. - Have you ever had like a neighbor from hell or like a bad neighbor? Like Japan aside, everyone in England. - No, I've been pretty good. I think you did. You mentioned it on Trash Taste. - Did I? - That people had sex, yeah. - Oh no, no, that was actually a fight. - Oh, that was pleasurable. - That was a fine. - I enjoyed hearing the sex with the wall.

- That's my homie right there. - We had a mutual understanding. They could have sex in the next room and I could record podcasts whenever I want and be a YouTuber. It was great. They didn't complain at all. And I didn't complain. - Did you move from home? - Yeah, I did actually. - I hope I never do, fingers crossed. - It was actually like the place I had moved to after that. So it was actually like the first place I'd moved into with Sydney.

And we just had this guy living above us. We didn't know this when we moved in, but we moved into this house that was basically like a HMO. So house of like multiple occupancy, which is like basically a house that has been like, it's been cut up to have several people living in it. So the walls, we didn't realize how thin the walls were. And we had a guy living above us that,

he was old, he was an older gentleman and definitely had a few screws loose, right? - Right. - 'Cause he said that he used to work for the police, right? And he would bring this up constantly, right? Because in this house that we were in, they had like heavy fire doors, right?

So we'd have to like really be super careful when we were like closing the doors. Like there's like letting the doors go, but there's also like, because these doors were so heavy, sometimes you just have to like yank it in. And sometimes that yank was just a little bit too much power behind it. And it would just like make a loudish noise. - Right. - And so this guy living above us,

At the beginning he tried to be a nice neighbor and we tried to be nice neighbors as well. And then we soon came to realize that this guy had like massive anger issues. I'm pretty sure like one day he could be the nicest guy ever and the next day he would just like blow up for like the smallest reasons. And we were just like, yeah, we kind of don't feel safe. So like every time we'd like a,

every time we'd like maybe shut the door a bit too loudly, at first he'd like tell us, right? Be like, "Can you please shut the door a bit quieter?" And we're like, "Sorry, that was our bad." We knew about it. And so we'd be extra, extra careful. But you know, you go out in and out of your house pretty often, right? And sometimes you just yank it a bit more harder than you would expect.

Sorry, sometimes you yank it a bit harder than you intended to. So one time he told us to be careful, it's fine. Nothing happened for a month. And then at around 7:00 PM, I just yanked it and I was like, oh shit, that was a bit loud. Literally comes downstairs, fucking, "What the fuck did I tell you?" - Jesus Christ. - He literally full on fucking screamed. I'm like, "Yo, what the fuck?"

- Fuck is going on? And like, from that moment on, keep in mind, this was a month after the last time I had accidentally shot it a bit too loudly. I was like, "Yo Sydney, I'm thinking we're living below a crazy guy here." - It's 7:00 PM, who gives a fuck? - Yeah, and it was 7:00 PM as well. It wasn't even in the dead of night. - What the fuck did I tell you a month ago? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And like, so like, you know,

I don't do the Japanese thing. I go up to him and I'll knock on his door. I'm like, yo bro, let's talk it out. Come on, come on. Let's come to an understanding here. And so, you know, we talk it out and he's very polite and very calm. - Oh fuck. - That's how they get you man. - He's very calm about it, right? And

And we were just like, look, look mate, this is the first place we've moved to with my new girlfriend. And he was saying, you know, just sometimes walls are very thin. So just keep in mind that I'm right below you. I'm like, no, I totally get it. After like 10:00 PM, that's when I'm like, that's when we are super quiet. We'd normally go to sleep 'cause I go to work the next day as well. But you know, sometimes we're not even talking at a loud kind of volume or whatever. So, you know, as long as you can understand that

we are a couple and we talk as people do when someone else is in the house, then we'll try to keep it down at late hours. Cool. And so I go back downstairs, literally a week later, not even closing the door this time, I'm literally just having a normal volumes conversation with Sydney. And instead of shouting, he starts walking around like really loudly, like start smashing down on the floor like this, right?

"What the fuck is going on?" Me and Sydney were like, "What the fuck is going on?" So I go back upstairs and I'm like, "Is everything okay? "Are you having a stroke, a heart attack? "What's going on?" And he was like, "Look, you're being fucking loud "and I just wanted to teach you a lesson, right? "This is what you get for speaking loudly." And I'm just like, "What the fuck?"

- What the fuck is going on? So like, this has literally scarred me for life, right? Because like I was living in fear that this guy was gonna do something. 'Cause like over time, 'cause we lived here for a year and a half and obviously our relationship deteriorated as it would when I felt like in fucking danger living in my own house and Sydney felt in danger living in,

in our house as well. And so it got to the point where some days we'd just be talking and then he just randomly start banging on his fridge doors or his cupboard doors, making a lot of noise when he thought that we were making a lot of noise and we were just talking and having a normal conversation most of the time. - Oh, fuck.

Eventually the relationship went from me trying to talk it out with him to being like, dude, what the fuck is your issue? And he's like, bro, I used to work in the police. Don't fuck with me, man. If I wanted, I'd call them over. I'd get all my mates. I get the boys over and I'd get you out. Or just say the word, just don't fuck with me. And I'm just like, fuck, let's Sydney. We got to move out as soon as possible. Like this was like one of the big reasons why we moved out. And so on the last night where we moved out,

Sydney was already gone 'cause she had gone back home to America. So it was just me and a mate talking. And so it was me and a mate talking and we were watching a movie. So we weren't even talking. It was just the volume of the TV at that point, right? And we get this bang on the fucking door, right? And this guy starts like screaming full volume in my face, right? He's just like, "I know you're about to fucking leave and I'm fucking, I'm glad you're about to fucking leave,

but like I need to give you one last piece of my mind. Like, fuck you, you've been the worst fucking neighbor of my entire life. And then he starts going off about how he's part of the police again. I'm like, bro, calm the fuck down. I'm like, at this point, this is probably the most pissed off I've been in my life. And I'm like, dude. - Monk mode went out the window. - No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm just like, dude, act the fuck off. And then he looks at me, right? Looks me straight in the eye and he's like, go on.

"Have a swipe, have a swipe. "Go on, go on." 'Cause like, I knew he wanted me to throw a punch so he had a reason to call the police. - Yeah, of course. - And I straight up look him in the eye and tell him,

"Dude, you don't know who you're dealing with here. "I was a fucking monk. "I'm not gonna punch you." I'm like, I'm fucking Zen right now, dude. You can try as hard as you like, I'm not gonna punch you. And he gets closer and he's like, "Go on, it's easy, go on." I'm like, "Dude, just back the fuck off now, please.

I'm gonna reenter my home, please just fuck off. - That's so sad. - And that was, yeah. - Jesus. - That was the last I heard of him. And that was my neighbor from hell. I really hope that no one ever goes through that because- - How did you stay in there for a year and a half, dude? - Because of our contract. - Oh yeah, right. - Literally like it was hell because anytime that we wanted, like we hated being in that house eventually, like after about,

after about six months to a year, we just, we stayed at my parents' house as much as we could. And then eventually we just straight up just moved back to our parents' house because it was like a fucking hell living in a house. And that's kind of why I never like one of, that's why I hate apartment sharing now because that one experience has taught me just,

- I just want my own space. I want no one to like a noise complaint actually triggers me now. So I'm just like, oh. - Dude, I don't fucking blame you after that. Jesus Christ. - And yeah, I had completely forgotten about that until we started talking about neighbors. - Well, there you go. - Wow. - Digging up old drawers looks like only on Trash Taste. - Wow. That's a natural.

- Jesus Christ. - I'm sure he's happy. - I'm sure he's happy now. - I'm sure he's happy now. - I think the early signs were there because- - I'm sure that he won't get a neighbor who's like,

- He's better than you anyway. I'm sure he's pretty good. - Yeah, because like, I think like there were early signs that were there because he was telling me about the dude that lived in that place before was also a young person as well. And he would not stop complaining about how much noise he made and how much, how loudly he shut the door. And I'm just like,

I mean, I've shut the door. It's loud, but it's not like fucking shake the house loud. - I probably just get to the point where I just start making noise to piss him off. He can smack on my door all day, man. I've got the Sony WX thingies. I'm noise canceled, bro. - It's like noise canceling headphones were made. - What are we gonna do, break into my house? Fuck off. - Was this apartment made out of paper? - I think so, man. I don't know. I don't know. - Jesus. - Well, 'cause in UK, what is it?

10:00 PM is the official time where you let's make noise? - Yeah, so right before 10:00 PM, I'll probably just blast music nonstop. And then the moment 10:00 PM hits, turn it off.

and then rinse and repeat. - Yeah, what's the worst they can do? Because I was just trying to be a nice neighbor. - If it's before a certain time and I think the noise pollution is below a certain decibel, I think they can't do anything. Actually, I don't think they can do anything. - Like legally, they can't do anything. - I don't think so. I could be wrong on that. I don't think they can. As long as it's like within a reasonable amount. - Yeah, so it's just the asshole tax that you pay them. - Yeah. - Okay. - You can just start ignoring him, right?

- Maybe he'll take a swing at you. - Maybe, you know what I should have done? Just gotten some nice noise canceling headphones. - Yeah, you should have, bro. I mean, just like if he knocks on the door, who cares, bro? Sleep through it. What's he gonna do, break down your door? Like, nah, bro.

- This is Kool-Aid man. - Yeah. - You're too loud. - And then you can call the police. - I can see the boys. I can see the boys that he keeps talking about, right? - You see mans? You see mans right here? - People who brag about that kind of stuff normally don't have as strong ties as they make it out to be. - No, they don't.

- I mean, I feel like he was an ex-cop for a reason, right? - He's not a current cop. - Yeah, yeah. - Yeah, I've never really had bad housemates. I've just had housemates that didn't like pay bills, but there's ways of being able to get them to pay bills. - Yeah, I think that's why, I mean, I would argue a housemate that doesn't pay the bill is a bad housemate. - Yeah, I would argue that as well. - Would you, I'd rather, because right, what we would, what I would do is, 'cause I was in charge of the internet,

And I was the only one, 'cause like these guys, I mean, they were at my age, but they weren't like very,

- Knowledgeable? - About like, yeah, about like technology and like internet stuff. And they didn't realize that like if you had the password to the internet, you could log in and turn off internet to certain devices. - Oh, okay, yeah. - Did you know you could do that? - Yeah, yeah. - Okay, yeah. So you can just type in the like, what is it? Like the, whatever the numbers are, the 19, whatever, 182. And then you can log into the internet. - The IP address. - Yeah, the IP address. You'd log into it and you can just turn off devices. So I would just, if they didn't pay me, I would just turn off all their internet, all their devices.

- That's literally the equivalent of like your mom taking your switch away because you didn't do your chores. It's like, until you do your chores, no more playtime for you. - Yeah, and then they would be like, "Oh, Connor, I've got an assignment." And I'm like, "Pay me, pay me and I'll put your internet back on." - That's a power move, dude. - Well, yeah, 'cause I'm like, they're not gonna pay me 'cause they were being assholes. So I was like, well, I mean- - Rightfully deserved, yeah. - You haven't paid me for like half a month now. We're all students, I don't have money. I'm paying a bill for four people. You can't pay me like 10 quid. Like, come on.

- That's why I hated being in charge of, like when you're in university, were you the guy, I'm guessing you were the guy in charge of paying the rents then? Or was it just- - So the rent was actually done separately, but the bills were done through me. And then it was only in the second house that I had a problem. The last house, there was only three of us. They were already chill and they all paid whenever I asked. But the house before that, they just never paid.

'cause they were just spending it all on weed. - As they do, as they do. - So I was like, well, I mean, all right, well, fuck. - 'Cause you always have that one housemate in uni that just,

was never there and never paid for anything. And you'd like, you'd have to fucking hire a private investigator or something to like get this guy's money or get the money from that guy. - It was weird, man. 'Cause like one of my housemates, he was like, "Well, how old are you in second year?" Like 20, barely 20, 19. - 21, maybe 20, yeah. - His girlfriend was pregnant and then he had the baby and it was just still so surreal.

when I'm like here barely have my life in order and this man just brings his fucking child into the room. And I'm like, and then I'm like, what's going on? This is so weird. I don't like this. And then I felt bad asking for internet money. I'm like, hey, by the way, can you pay the bills? - I know you have to like feed your kid, but. - I'm like, I'm sure you can go like a week without weed. Just pay me, bro. Like I'll give your kid some Starbucks or something. I don't know.

- Just pay me, I don't know. - I got some top ramen leftover, you can give it to your baby. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd also like, I think his girlfriend basically lived at our house and I was like, should she be paying some bills? I don't know. - I mean, to be fair, you should. - I was like, I'm not gonna ask, but I think you should just pay me on time and we got no problem. I don't give a shit.

'Cause it just wouldn't get done unless I did it. - Yeah, of course. - We wouldn't have internet. I'm like, well, I want internet. So I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna set it up. Oh, inadvertently it's in my name. Fuck. - Or maybe it was better though, it was inadvertently in your name, right? - Yeah, well, 'cause then I canceled it all and I did it and all that. And I think one time they didn't pay me.

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They actually owed us, I think it was something like 80 pounds in the end in overdue bills. And because we'd all left the house, I couldn't hand them, I messaged them on Facebook and they wouldn't send it to us.

And so I had to pay it. And it was actually me and my friend who were the only ones who paid bills. And we were really close and I still hang out with him and still message him sometimes. Really good friends with them. And we both basically paid all our bills and sort it all out. And yeah, so we had to then pay the bills for two months for the other guys who didn't pay. And we were really annoyed about it 'cause we were trying to get them to pay and they weren't paying us.

And then I felt like some cosmic justice was given because, and yeah. - The gods smiled down at you. - The gods were like, "Hold up Connor." So it turns out, right? We'd actually overpaid our bills. And then we got a rebate. So they'd actually given us money back, which was actually more than what we actually owed. So we ended up getting given something like 50 pounds back. And my friend was like, "Should we give it like equally between us all?"

Do you think they would have done the same? I'm like, let's just split it 50-50. - How about, fuck them? - It's 25 quid, let's just keep it. Let's just go to the pub. Let's fuck this. They weren't gonna pay us. - I bet if you messaged them, they would have like replied at the speed of light. - They'd have been like, "He's not paying me by the way." "I'm trying to send you money." "Oh yo, no worries, no worries." - Pub, pub, pub.

- I do feel a little bit bad about it. Before we record, I'm like, can I tell the story? It's like, am I stealing? - I would have done the exact same thing. - They would have done the exact same thing. - They would have done the exact same thing. - Yeah. - I would have been sorry about it. - Especially if they didn't pay you as well. - Yeah, exactly. - Yeah, they literally wouldn't reply to our messages about them paying us back. And I felt bad, but I was also like, 'cause I just would never ever steal, but I was like- - No, but if they're not gonna follow the rules, then why should you follow the rules? - Yeah. - Right?

I feel it's fair. - Yeah, I guess so. - Yeah. - I feel like going through rent drama or some kind of like bills drama in university is just like a rite of passage. I feel like everyone's had at least one person that they've been living with who has just been like the most,

difficult dickheads to fucking get any kind of money out of. - I know, I know. I just feel bad 'cause I feel like I'm better than that. I don't do this. I wake up in a cold sweat, I'm like, "What's the statute of limitations of stealing?" You know what I mean? I don't know, even though it's a small amount as well, I felt bad, but I was like, "You know what? No, fuck them."

- Yeah, exactly. - But also I'm like, it's literally like that good kid does one bad thing and is like, "Oh shit, is the police gonna get caught?" You know what I mean? - That's called karma, man. - Literally just wants, "Oh shit, am I gonna prison?" I just never did that, I don't know. It was very validating, but it was also like, "Fuck, I ain't gonna jail." - What's the limit to stealing before the cops get caught on me? - It's like, "One weekend, I'm good, right? "I'm free, I'm free."

- Have you ever stolen anything? - No, no, never, never. Even as a kid. - Hello, this is a trash taste like criminal record. - Yeah, me neither. - Guys, what's the most illegal thing you've done? Yeah, me neither. - Okay, so you know how in the UK you can get, what was it? There's like bakeries in the store and you have to tell on the thing what you got.

And I think one time I got like four croissants and I clicked what I thought was four and I went through and then I came, I went to the till and I paid. - Yeah. - Turned out boys, I chose the wrong croissants.

- Big sad. - And it was actually cheaper than what it was. - Oh damn. - You absolute criminal scum. - I know, I know. So I left the store. I got about like, I don't know, like 10 seconds out of the store and I looked at the receipt and I was like, this is not the, 'cause I think I actually got like the chocolate ones and I was like, it's not the chocolate, it's 20p extra. And I went back and I was like, hi, do I need to change, like pay the difference? And the guy was like, I don't care. It's like 20p, I don't think they care.

I was like, are you sure? Like, I don't mind paying. Like, I feel bad that I walked out with 20 pence. The wrong, you're not gonna call the cops, right? But he's like, dude, it's, no one cares. - I've had that before. Like I did like the, you know, when you're like really, really young and you do like the accidental stealing, like the completely unaware stealing. So I did that once. Like, I think I was like fucking, I don't know, five or six years old and like in Australia,

there's like newspaper stores where like people go to like buy newspapers, magazines. And usually at the front, like cashier, there's like all these like, you know, really small, cheap, like candies and like chocolates and stuff like that, that kids can buy and whatnot. - Yeah. - And I think I specifically remember there was one time I went, 'cause I think my dad had to go like buy a newspaper or something back when he was still buying newspapers.

And I picked out like a candy. I think it was like 10 cents or 20 cents or something like that. And I was like, dad, can I have this? And he was like, bugger off son, you're not having that. And we got sweets at home. And I remember, I don't know why, but like that day, I guess I was in like a pissed off mood or something. I remember being really angry that he didn't buy me this like 10, 20 cent like fucking,

- Pissy little like candy, right? And I remember just being like, man, like just clenching my fist being like, God damn it. God damn it father. - I'm gonna steal right now. - No, no. I was like, God. - I'm about to steal. - No, I was like, I was just like, God damn it. Just clenching my fist really hard. And then we walk out and we've walked into the car and I'm still pissed off clenching my fist. And then I kind of looked down at one of my fists and I opened my hand. - I've done that before. - The candy is in my hand and I was just like,

slowly put it in my pocket. - How did that get here? - Yeah, 'cause I was like, something feels weird in my clenched fist. And I was like, at that moment, it was like fucking Detroit become human choices. Like popped up here like, do I put this in my pocket or do I come out clean? I was like,

- Put it in my pocket, I'm gonna save this for later. - You know what I did try and do one time in it. Okay, so you know how like corner stores, they don't really have like the super ultra advanced labeling, price labeling thing. They just kind of have like those little cheap plastic paper stickers. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Like the orange ones.

they would put like a pound or 50 pence. And one time I thought like, I just had like a gig of brain thought. I said, I'm gonna swap them. I'm gonna swap the labels. 'Cause I really want this thing, but I don't have enough. I think I have like one pound, it's one pound 50. I'm like, I'm gonna change the label. And I was like, heart was fucking racing going up to the stand, like to the till. I'm like, fuck, fuck, play cool, play cool, play cool. And as I'm scanning them, and I'm like,

And then as he's scanning them, I realized I'm like, wait, he just scanned it. And it doesn't fucking matter what the label says. Cause the fucking barcode.

And he was like, "Oh, it's got the wrong label on it." I'm like, "Oh, does it? Does it? Oh, shit. Oh, fuck, fuck, fuck." - Wow, I never noticed. Thank you for pointing that out. - It's like, "Fuck, do-do-do-do." And I'm like, "Oh, shit." - I think the worst thing I've ever done is, like, you know when, in England, you know when they introduced the self-service machines, right? Which is the closest thing I think England's got into a trust system.

And on top of this England's within our lifetime, England has added the plastic bag tax, which wasn't always there. Normally you could take as many plastic bags as you wanted. Normally you could take as many plastic bags as you wanted, but like I think how many years ago where they introduced the 5P tax for like in order to take plastic bags. - Like five, six years ago I'd say. - Yeah, like five, six years ago. And I remember this one time,

- It was in a Tesco or something. And I had like, I didn't have my card on me because I just like gone out the house. So I just had like change in my pocket. And I came up to the till and it was self-service and it went up to the exact change of my shopping, right? But I hadn't bought the plastic bag yet. So I was just like,

- Do I put everything back? - Nah bro, if I was working there, I'd be like, bro, you're not new for having the perfect amount. - So I was just like, do I put everything back, run back home, which is only five minutes away and come back with like a tenner or like my card or something to buy this.

Or do I just press the, I have paid for one bag. No, no. Or do I just press the zero bag option? And I like look around, I start like fucking sweating. 'Cause I'm just like, I'm a good Asian boy. I've never broken the law in my life, but I'm just like, check the security camera. I just like check the store clerk, time fucking stops. - Fucking put the hood on. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I'm ready. - You know when you feel like you got a fucking spotlight on you and I'm just like.

- I'm just fucking legging out. - How dare he steal a five pence bag. - Yes, and now that's on camera, so yes. - Oh my God. - I'm a criminal, Garth. - Absolute criminal, Giga. - To be fair with that one, I think I'd pay by card a bunch and I'd forgotten to put the plastic bag and they're literally right there.

and I pay my card and I have no cash on me. I'm like, I am not getting my card out. - Oh yeah. - So I'll just take one. They didn't give a fuck. They never gave a fuck. - No. - He's gone sweating and I'm just next to him like, "You're taking one." - I'm pretty sure I've accidentally pressed zero bags when I've taken one or two bags like so many times.

- No, God, say it isn't so. - It's the conscious choice. It's that I consciously made that choice. - It's the confident press of the button. - It's the difference between manslaughter and murder, Garth. - I think that's why the trust system works- - It's conscious manslaughter. - I think that's why the trust system works so well here in Japan, 'cause I don't know if we've mentioned,

how they ID for alcohol here in con beanies, right? Which is, you know, they never ask for ID if you're buying alcohol here in a supermarket or a con beanie here. 'Cause what happens is you take the beer or whatever alcohol you want

the clerk scans it and then there's this button that you have to press in Japan that says, "I am over 18." - No, it's over 20. - Oh, no, no, yeah, sorry, sorry. It's over 20. Now, in England, this wouldn't work. Any fucking kid would come in and say, "Yeah,

I'm over the age of drinking. Fuck, I remember how many kids had fake IDs and just went fucking clubbing back when I was underage as well. But here in Japan, I can imagine just like this Japanese kid just coming up and being like, I'm gonna cheat the system. I'm gonna do what's called a pro gamer move. Gets up to the cashier and like he just tries to pass the button. It's just like, nope.

- Come on, do it. I can't do it. - I'm a child, I'm sorry. - That is literally the equivalent of like going onto a porn website and then when it says like, you must be 18 years or over to like enter the website, Japanese can be like, shit, shit. - Like a Japanese is like, officer arrest me now. I'm sorry. Had bad thoughts. - I pressed yes. I was curious. Just take me away. - Japanese kids are like, shit, turn on anime, full porn. - Turns on TV.

- It's so pointless. - I mean, as well in Japan, they have just vending machines with beer, vending machines with cigarettes. Just like on the street. It's like, all right, okay. - It's not until recently that like the vending machines that sell cigarettes, like finally started to implement like a card system to idea because- - But the alcohol ones don't. - No, the alcohol ones don't. So like a 14 year old would be like, what's Asahi? And then they just fucking order and realize it's beer. - There's definitely kids doing that.

- Yeah, 100%. - 100%. I did that. - I would too.

- Yeah, like first time I was working up in the ski fields, I was like 16 and outside of where I was staying, there was a vending machine that was selling beer. I was like, oh sweet, I don't have to trek all the way to the other side of the road at the corn bin. I can just fucking go here. - I'm sure the police don't give a shit if you're not sure of doing beer. You're like literally drunk as fuck, like in the middle of the street or something. - Yeah, exactly. - You got better things to do. Like complain. - Yeah, complain about stepping too loud. - Idea gaijin or something. - I don't know. - But me being the gaijin in the snow fields, I was like.

- Just come around the corner and just bust me on the spot. - This man fucking cracks it open, the Solid Snake music starts playing.

- The guy shouldn't open the beer. - Have you guys ever stolen your parents' credit cards for anything when you were a kid? - No, no. - Oh, okay. - My mom would find out so fucking fast, bro. My mom checks her credit card like daily for like, there was absolutely no way I could do that. - Dude, I didn't even know where my parents' credit card was. - No, no. - To me, money wasn't a system where you could, I never viewed it as a system where you could game it.

I always thought of it as I get money, I spend the money that I get. - Yeah. - And I could earn money through things. That was the, I never even conceived. I'm not saying this 'cause I think I'm like, I'm a good boy. I literally never even conceived of the fact that I could take money. - That's not even a good boy thing. That's just a boy thing.

- That's the common sense. - I just assumed the only way I could get it was through doing the tasks that I was allotted. Maybe because I played video games too much and I thought task equals reward. I genuinely never even considered. So when I hear about these kids who steal their parents' credit cards, how is this so fucking normalized? Like to me it was never even an option of like stealing parents' money. - When I hear that I'm just like, okay, you're like a nine year old, 10 year old who just happened to get their mom's credit card. Like how did you find that?

If I was a nine year old and I was like, man, I really want to like throw a super chat at this VTuber. I'm not going to think like, where's my mom's credit card. Like, I'm not going to like start thinking like, I was like, all right, let's start the simulation. Where could my mom's credit card possibly be in this house? Soul Snake Music starts playing. Like, I wouldn't even think

- I don't even think about that, right? - I would rather, I'd have more luck trying to trick my parents by convincing them. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. - I think I probably have done that before more than I have. - Mom, you don't understand. They're like my favorite VTuber. - If they're the ones who put the details in and they don't like it, I'm like, well, you did it.

- You put it in, you listen to my bullshit. Like you let me do it. I'm too big brain. Kids, you're amateurs. 10 year olds nowadays are too lazy. I think I should make guides and have- - You gotta fucking inception that idea into your parents. - More kids need to be like Darren Brown, like the fucking big brain convincing. Don't steal, convince other people to steal for you.

That's what you should be. Isn't this like proxy bullying and the whole thing? Oh my God. That was like, don't bully, get someone else to bully you. - It's like social engineering.

- It's so above me as well. 'Cause I think I was just such a straight edge kid. - Same to be honest. - Even when I was a kid, I remember the first time I'd ever gotten anything from this thing called the Tooth Fairy. Now I'd heard about this thing called the Tooth Fairy for all my kids, right?

- From my friends at school. - All your kids? - Yeah, so not from all my kids, from all my fellow kids at school. And they were saying like, "Oh yeah, if your teeth come out, "you put it on your pillow, get a bit of money." Like someone once got like a pound, maybe two pounds. I was like, "Damn."

That's a business opportunity right there. - I was the wrong kid to tell that to. - Just go around stealing people's teeth. - I was like, damn. So I remember the first time I like had one of my tooth knocked out. I was so fucking excited. I was like,

My time has come, finally, the tooth fairy was in me. And so I go to sleep that day and what do I find on my pillow? Five fucking pounds. - Shit. - I'm just like, holy shit, I'm fucking rolling in it, man. But also I was a good kid, right? So I was like, I knew my parents weren't that well off. So I was like, "Mom, you know what I got?"

I got five pounds, but you know what? I don't need it. Treat yourself, mom. - Whoa. - And I didn't realize at the time, I found out two years later, I just gave the five pounds my mom gave to me back to my mom. And I'm just like,

- Mom, I can't believe I've been squindered like this. - She probably thinks she's probably- - Money laundering at its finest. - To be fair, is there any prouder moment as a parent than if your kid did that? - Yeah, right? - That's literally like the whole Bible tales that you hear about. - Yeah. - You're like literally good Samaritan, that shit. - I remember they came into school and they did like this presentation one time. 'Cause we, I also remember,

our school wasn't a like Christian school or anything. - Yeah. - But we did pray three times a day and every single story had to be a fucking Bible story. - Right. - So I thought that was kind of sus. But anyway, they would, I remember this one story they told out just stuck out my mind and I hated this story so much. I thought this was the dumbest fucking story. - Okay. - They'd be like, "What do you want for Christmas? You could have..."

Five pounds or a Bible and and then it was like everyone the first person chose the five pounds They got given the five pounds Yeah And they were happy the second person got asked for the five pounds and they got the five pounds and they didn't want the Bible the third person They chose the Bible and when they opened the Bible up there was ten pounds in it And I was like, what is the moral of the story?

Even when I was a kid, I'm like, are you trying to tell me that every Bible has a tenor in it? Because I'm gonna go around and look and there was no tenors. And I'm like, wait, so what is the moral? Like genuinely now, what is the moral of this story? Like even 10 year old me was like, this is dumb. This is really dumb. - That's not a matter of words. - And then they were trying to be like, choosing knowledge over money is more, I'm like, wait, wait, hold up. - It's more valuable. - Hold up, hold up. Price of the Bible is like three pound.

- So wait, hold up. So what are you like? I'm like, we can't guarantee there's always gonna be money in the Bible. - So technically if I get the Bible, I take the 10 around and I sell the Bible for three pounds. - Exactly. - 13 pounds. - I was just like, this is dumb. This is a dumb, dumb shame on you.

- You could have- - Yeah, this is so lazy. I know I'm a kid, but this is so, and this annoyed the fuck out of me. And they told this thing like three times in my whole school life. And every single time I used to get like seethingly mad when they would tell this story and no one else seemed to bothered by it. They were like, yeah, that's a good one.

I'm like, this is a dumb, dumb moral. This is never a situation you would be, who asks you which gift you want? No? And it's never gonna be between money and a book. It's always between, oh, what do you want for your birthday? It's not, oh, which two do you want, money or this? It's like, maybe the money. - Yeah, what is this choice option? - Yeah, but it's never a philosophical question of which do I want. It's, I'm just gonna take the thing that I want. This shouldn't be a fucking like, a question of my moral standing. You're giving me a gift for Christmas, fuck off.

- It's like Christmas, it's like, which one do you want? The millionaire music starts playing. - It really annoys me. It's just the whole, I really, really, really, really, really despise when they try and turn- - That's really weird. - When they try and turn very unreligious situations or philosophical situations

into philosophical situations that have no right to be. I'm like, I'm just trying to buy my homie a present. I want to know what they want. Like genuinely, I'm trying to be a good friend. If Garnt wants the five pounds, that's what Garnt wants. - I'm gonna give him the five pounds. - Who am I to preach that Garnt wants the fucking Bible, bro? He doesn't want that shit. Like maybe he's not religious. You know what I mean? I'm not trying to save him. What is this shit? - You want five pounds? Are you sure about that? - I got a Bible.

- And every year I got older and they would tell this story, I would get more annoyed by it. The more I realized how little sense it made. And this whole, I don't know if this is a common thing or something they just told in my school, but they would tell this story all the time. - I mean, I went to a Catholic high school and I never heard of that story. - I don't know if it's something that they made up and this was like that banger that they kept in, like the person telling the story.

- This is the story that gets people to like discover Christ. - It's like, oh Lord, oh Lord. - Oh Lord, I can't. - It's like, you're not a Christian yet. - And I remember one time. - Connor, tell them the Bible story. Come on, come on, come on. - And I remember one time as well, because they used to tell my primary school and I remember, 'cause this is the one that really pissed me off. I just remembered this right now.

the headmaster of my high school, 'cause it was the primary school, so the elementary school, who told it twice throughout the elementary school. I remember this, 'cause I always hated it, so I always stood out. And then I remember it. My sub-headmaster came in and he fucking came in and he started talking about it. I'm like, no.

"Don't you dare tell this story." And he had the audacity to bring in both the props as well. - Oh my God. - And he couldn't just tell the story. He had to ask the kids which one they wanted. And it backfired 'cause the first kid he asked was from the same primary school as me. So he knew the answer. And so he asked, "Which one do you want? "The Bible or the five pounds for Christmas?" And the kid was like, "Bible." Immediately, and he was like,

Which one do you really want? Bible. And he had to be like, good answer. That's the correct answer. 'Cause there's a tenor in there to reward your faith. I'm like, fuck off. Fuck off, bro. I hate this. This sucks. I hate this. This made me more not this just,

made me despise religion even more from a young age. This is not the way to get kids into religion. - Exactly. Like there's better ways to do it. Like it's literally just tricking them, right? And just being like, yeah, this like kind of untrue, unrealistic thing.

Happens all the time. Take the Bible. - There's just so many of these religious things that when you actually break them down a real scenario, just don't work in a way that you're like, just stop, just stop. I don't mind people, religion and all that. - Yeah, of course. - There's better ways to get them into it, right? - When they're trying to do these stories like this, I'm like, just no, shut up. - Exactly.

- I can't wait for like a fucking Jehovah's Witness, like knock on your door and you open it and you just see the Bible and just like a thousand yen in the other hand. You're just like, no, no. - Grab the Bible. - Grab the Bible, shut the door. - It's like, oh sweet. - Just like, just shake it, shake it, shake the Bible. - You just grab the Bible, just. - There you go.

- That's just the dumbest thing. Why do I tell this story? I don't know why I told this story. I can't fucking remember. - I think we were just talking about, sorry.

- Morals. - Morals. - Oh, it's stealing, right? - Yeah. - Oh yeah. - Yeah, yeah. - It's a moral list of- - Sorry, take the Bible 'cause there's a tenor in there. - Yeah, always take the Bible if someone questions you. - Every Bible you see has a tenor in it somewhere. - In any other situation, just take the fiver unless you wanna take the Bible. - I don't need religion to tell me not to be an asshole. I'm already doing that, frankly. I'm trying my best to, you know? When the man in the taxi offered me the money or the Bible, I took the money.

- Excuse me, sir. - I'm hoping you've all got that call back. - 4,000 yen or the Bible. - Yeah, he's like, "Do you want reimbursement or the Bible?" It was all a setup. It was all a setup.

- What kills me is like, what Christian out there who is already a Christian doesn't already own a Bible. Who out there who just posed this question be like, "You know what? I was just looking for a Bible actually, man. I needed a seventh copy of the Bible in the house. I'll take the tenor as well. Thank you very much." - Jesus Christ. - This has been like one of the weirdest tangents ever.

- Starting off season two strong, I can see. - My God. - It just always annoyed me. I'm still annoyed about it to this day. When I go back, if I ever go to school, I'm not gonna give a shitty talk. I should do an even worse one than that. I'm gonna come up with the worst. - You know what I'm gonna do? If I ever have a kid, I'm gonna tell that story to my kid, but not put the tenor in the Bible. - They're like, "You're dumb. There's one of these in every single hotel. You could've got one for free. You're not a fucking hustler." - Should've taken the five.

- So how was this spread out throughout your entire region? Or like- - I don't know. Well, you know, I think it's because the area where I grew up was, you know, everyone, every teacher knew every other teacher in like the high school. - I guess you did live in- - All the police people knew. All the, you know, odds are is that, you know, half of your,

all the teachers at the school were people who went to the school. And all the people who got jobs were relatives of people who worked in the school. And it was all very tight knit, very, very tight knit. So I think all the stuff got passed down and everything that they thought, well, this is a good idea, just kept getting repeated.

- Yeah, like stuff you did in like primary school, somehow the high school teacher would tell you about. You're like, how'd you know I shit myself in third grade? How did you know that? Who told you that? - Yeah, like how did primary school teachers still remember like every student that they've taught? - Well, this is the thing is that this would be totally unrelated. Like this would be a different school, different teacher, and they would somehow know the shit that you did

in primary school and you're like, "Stop talking to each other about me. "Don't talk about me in school. "Don't talk about me outside of school." - Okay, it's back. - Trash taste malfunction.

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just from saying one of the teachers misses me or something. - What? - And I was like, what? - How does the teacher remember you? - Oh, well, actually, I mean, they remember, it's a small school. And also I think we've had like, so my brother and my little brother went there. So three generations of ours. And I've also, I did talks.

- You did talks. - Oh, you like went back to your school to do talks? - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. - For the talk there, which was terrible 'cause I didn't prepare at all. I just went there and I was like, "What do you want me to say?" I don't know. - Are you a YouTuber? - All you have to say is I'm a YouTuber and every kid is like, "Tell me more." - No, tell me more. - I'm immediately interested. - Actually, now I have a frame of reference. So I've done two talks now. I've done one talk at my high school for sixth form students, which are like 17 to 18.

And I've done a talk at my mom's primary school for like 10 year olds. It was very, very different experience. And I way, way, way enjoyed talking for the 10 year olds way more than I did the 17 year old. 'Cause 17 year olds, they're at that age where they're way too shy about everything. And they're like starting to get self-conscious. They hate life. I mean, I did. - I mean, everyone remembers that age. - And so even though I thought, yeah, I'm a YouTuber, right? This is like a cool ass job. I'd be fucking, I'd be like,

I'm like, "Yeah, this is sick." I went out and I'm like, "All right, so who's got any questions?" Fucking no one had questions. I'm like, "Wait, what's going on?" Am I not cool? Am I not cool? Is this not epic? - It's like, "Are you not being entertained right now? Are you not entertained?" - What, I have to dab? I'll dab. What do you do, dab? Like, what do I gotta do? - I gotta TikTok.

And then I was like, oh God. And then I think the teacher felt bad for me and he was like, "Oh, I have a question." And I was like, "Oh, fuck my life." - Did you go to Unipop? - Yeah. - You got the pity question. - Yeah. - Yeah. But then I think they started asking some questions. It was all right. It was just terrible. And I had to talk in Welsh as well. And I can talk in Welsh, but I'm not as like able to express myself as much in Welsh. - Have you seen a YouTuber in Welsh? - Just YouTuber. - Oh, okay.

- It's boring. - Sounds like- - Same in Thai. - Oh, fair enough. - And then YouTube, YouTube, slightly different accent. Yeah, do we need YouTube? Just that's it.

- Yeah, and it was all right. It was just fine. I should have prepared more, but I also didn't know what to talk about. I was like, just ask me shit. - I guess the 10 year olds would have been better off 'cause they were more curious. - Bro, they were great. They were like fucking loving it. 'Cause I also was doing it over Zoom. - Oh, you did it Zoom? - Yeah, yeah, because it was, I did this like three weeks ago. - Oh shit. - You didn't tell me about this. - Yeah, you didn't tell me about this. - I was saving for Trash Taste. - Oh, okay. - I'm glad I remembered. - We're getting the same experience as you viewers. - So I set up,

my streaming stuff as a virtual webcam. So basically I had like my stream set up, up to the zoom and what I was doing was- - Yeah, that's just my Phillip Hughes lights back there. You're like, "What do you think Twitch chat?" I mean, 10 year olds. - All the zooms and the wide angles. And I was like fucking around with that and doing all the sound effects and doing all the memes sounds and stuff while I was doing the presentation for them and answering their questions. - You like these memes kids?

I was literally doing like live video editing and these fucking kids were losing it, bro. It was so fun. - You just did a private Twitch stream basically. - Yeah, literally. - It was so fun. These kids loved it, bro. - I bet, man. - Every time I did like the fucking wide camera angle, they fucking started like pissing themselves laughing. It was so fun. And they were like,

And they also all watched anime. - Oh wow. - Which is like great. - Yeah, I remember you saying in the FCCJ interview that you were like, what's your favorite anime? You said Attack on Titan. I assume you just said that 'cause you were just like, what's a popular anime? - So these kids are 10 years old. They should not be watching Attack on Titan. - Yeah. - They should not be watching. - Should have said JoJo and see how far the net has been casted. - So I said Attack on Titan and these kids were like, yes! They were like, who's your favorite character? I was like, Captain Levi. They were like, yes!

And I was like, "What the fuck is going on?" And they're like, "What's your favorite sound effect?" And I started playing with them and stuff. They loved it. They were like, "Oh."

- I was surprised 'cause normally the one question you get from kids is like, how much do you make? None of them asked that. I was like, wow, nice kids, very respectful kids. - Yeah, because like at that age, right? Like YouTube is still kind of in the dreamscape, right? It's not until you hit high school where you're like, so is it worth not going to YouTube before? - Do 10 year olds care about how much money people make? - No. - I don't think. - Some do. - I never cared at 10 years old. - I don't know, it depends on the kid. But they were really nice. They asked, you know, they were like, oh, what age do you recommend starting YouTube? And I was like, that's a tough question.

at one point I'd recommend stay as far away from the internet as possible, as long as you can. But also on the other hand, getting experience editing is never a bad thing. Like getting good at video editing from like age 12, it's just great experience. I mean, just for life in general, like being able to make videos is a super useful, like very handy technique that will come in useful, I guarantee in your life at some point you will wanna make a video. - Even in a corporate job,

it's useful as well. - You will wanna make a video at some point and being able to make a video and not shit yourself opening software is very useful. - Sure, sure. - I was saying, just being able to learn something is great. It's great, these kids are really good. I was like, I felt like, I was like kind of proud. I was like, these kids are good.

"Good kids, these." I was like, "They're asking the right questions." - "Good lads, these lads." - "You got a good set there, mom." They were like, "Did you like school?" And I was like, "Of course I did." Only when my mom told me to. My mom was in the room. I was like, "Yeah, of course." And they were like, "Oh, you know, they were like, 'Oh, did you like school?'" And I was like, "Of course I did." That's what I told Mrs. Cahoon, but secretly, no, I didn't.

- So this thing, was it a Zoom call? Was it like a virtual classroom or were they in a physical classroom? - They were in a physical classroom. I was on like a big screen and I could see them. And then at one point I tried to show them my audio setup thing and it unplugged and crashed my whole PC.

I was like, I texted my mom. I was like, mom, I'm sorry. Give me five minutes. Gotta reboot my whole PC. It was pretty bad, but it was good fun. They were really cute. - I wanna do that. - I wanna do that. - That was really fun. - Ask your- - Hey, I'll be Heights primary school. Give me an email. - Hey, Blanchington Mill. Come on, come on, come on. I'm right there. I'm right there, man. - I was telling my mom, I was like, oh, sure. Cause my mom really wanted to, I don't know. Maybe she wanted the flags.

- I don't know why my mom wanted it. 'Cause they all knew I was a YouTuber, but my mom didn't want to tell them who I was 'cause my stuff is not appropriate for 10 year olds. - Yeah. - Yeah, yeah. - I was like, fair enough. I mean, especially trash taste is not good. - Let's not show them trash taste. - Nevermind, I'll be high. I take that back. Maybe it's not a good idea for the kids to be exposed to my content. - If you don't wanna talk about it, they don't have to know your YouTube channel. - Maybe the sixth graders can watch, but anyone below that, probably not. - Like Justin Mill, show them the hentai.

- Joey's like fucking, I went to a porn studio. I went to porn. - Show them the SOD. - Here's my favorite porno. - Perfect. - I'll send you the Patreon version. It's all right. - Yeah, it was fine. I mean, it was way more fun than the high school 'cause the high school I just stood there and I was like, what do you want to know? And they were like, oh, nothing.

I'm like, you're all boring. - We know what you do. - Yeah, because I guess at that age, it's like you hear enough about like the behind the scenes of YouTube, right? Because you kind of start to like explore further past like the surface. - I do feel that like one thing, especially in a small town where I grew up, where like you're not told anything about,

being able to do anything outside of your small town. The most ambitious thing you're told about doing is leaving your town to go to another university town in the UK. Like the thought of being able to go to a foreign country and study was like never even brought up to me. It was never even suggested to me that was a possibility. Like no one in my school studied abroad. Like that was not even mentioned.

And now I feel kind of cheated that that was never mentioned to me. 'Cause I meet people who studied in all of these countries and that was just because their school was like, "Oh, by the way, these courses are available." I'm like, "Why did no one tell me?" This is like, maybe it's my teacher's fault, I don't know. Someone should have told me that this was an option that I could have done. This is something that there should have been more options told to me. And so I went into there and I was like,

Listen, the teachers are gonna tell you stuff like what they're supposed to tell you, but please do your own research and check for courses that interest you, check for international courses, check for stuff that's outside of what is being told and fed to you because there are so much more options that are so interesting and way more fitting for you. Like somebody who hates engineering like myself who did it was never really gonna get an engineering degree.

Maybe I would, I'd realize within two, three years I despise it and I would quit and go do something. - Yeah, that might've been like a deadbeat job for you. - Yeah, it would have been something I despised, right? And then that was just because there was no other options presented to me. And I almost feel like the system was kind of failed because it didn't tell me anything. I was just told these are the courses I can do.

- Or go to McDonald's, see you buddy. - Yeah, and I feel like a lot of people do just, it's not a case of people don't wanna do this, it's just a case of people just don't know that it's out there. 'Cause I have exactly the same experience with you where the only reason I have a more understanding about international culture is because I come from an international background and an international family, because my family flew over from Thailand. That's the only reason I knew. But even with that background,

I had no idea how many different paths I could have taken in terms of like study abroad or have different kinds of experiences like that. - If you speak fluent English, you can go study in any English speaking country and apply for an international student. And you'll probably get accepted if you're not, you don't have like a fucking criminal background, you'll probably get accepted. And if I don't know that I could have just gone to America and studied,

I'd have done that. 100% I'd have done that. - That's like one of my biggest life regrets is the fact that like I got offered to like go study in Japan for like two months during high school. And I said no, because I was too lazy. And that's legit the biggest fucking regret of my life. - I mean, I think I always had the same opportunity to study abroad when I was in high school and I just didn't take it 'cause I'm like, well, none of my mates are taking it, so why would I take it? And I'm just like, well- - I'm gonna be away from my friends and family for like three months. I don't want that. - Instead I went to another shit hole Welsh town

I'm kidding, it's all right. But I would have loved to have explored, you know, and done all this stuff. And if I knew that was an option, I would have gone for it. So that's the main reason why I went to the school to talk to these kids was 'cause I was like, "Talk to these kids."

- What the fuck is that? - Teach the kids. Gotta teach the kids. I thought, you know, I'd let them know and just say like, you can do shit. - Just do shit. - You can literally do anything you want, bro. - Don't let your dreams be dreams. - So hopefully if one of those kids looked up and did something and had fun. Probably not though. - Because even in university, there would be like courses where, you know,

you'd have the opportunity to study at one of their like sister universities in another country. And I remember that they were like, you can tell the kind of people who were going to study abroad. Cause like, they just seemed like they were up for anything. And I was just like, man, I wish I had the balls that you had back when I was in university. Cause I feel like that would have been one of the best experiences in my life or just like a really valuable piece of experience that I just didn't get until later in life. Right. Cause I feel like,

Part of your life after university and especially during like your mid to late thirties is that you kind of realize that life just kind of stays the same unless you actively search for new experiences. And I didn't realize that until,

after university life attended that, you know, we were just really lucky as, you know, as a kid, as a teenager, whatever to just every year you'd kind of get a new experience. But once that period of your life is over, then you just have to search for that yourself. And it's just not gonna come to you. You gotta do that yourself.

And that's why I feel like a lot of people who we, in the same area who we grew up with, they just end up staying in that same area or they just, you go back home and they haven't changed much. And that's just because they haven't realized that if they don't do something, then nothing's ever gonna change. And some people are comfortable with that and that's completely fine. But I think there are, I've met enough people in my life who,

have like this urge to do something new and do something different, but don't even know where to get started. And I feel like just go for it. - You miss every shot you don't take, right? - Yeah, yeah. Just do something out of your comfort zone. - You don't need an excuse to do anything. - Just take a risk. - I remember one time my friend went and like traveled abroad alone and I was like, whoa,

"What the fuck, you can do that?" - Yeah. - "Just go somewhere for fun alone?" - Yeah. - I remember I thought, "Okay, I'm kind of jealous "that this guy just had the balls to do that." And now I wouldn't mind doing that. It's not preferable, but I wouldn't mind doing it. If I wanna go somewhere or you wanna do something, you don't need an excuse to do it, just fucking go somewhere. - Just do it. I remember I was talking to a guy

who had, you know, back when university and he was talking about, this was going in his thirties. And he was talking about, yeah, I used to work at this big company. And then I just quit and saved up and just traveled for like a year or two. And I'm just like, wait, I thought gap years, I thought you couldn't do that after your gap years. That's what gap years was for. And he's just like, no, I just, you know, I just did it because I just needed change in my life. And you're like, wait,

but what happens when you go back? You have a career, right? I just couldn't comprehend someone just doing something out of the life path that's, you know, the career path that I was taught. - Yeah, it's like the moment you have your career, it's like, why would you willingly just end your career like that? Why would you just quit your job like that?

- I mean, yeah, like fuck, if I was in that position, I'd probably do it too, you know? - Yeah. - Sometimes it does take, you know, that kind of massive risk taking to realize that, oh, you know, maybe it's fucking worth it to end your career. Maybe that career wasn't worth it. - Be a YouTuber. - YouTubers be like.

- I'm just gonna end my career. - I'm just gonna end my career, go on a trip. - Yeah, but I feel like especially this goes to most like high schoolers because I feel like that's the point in your life where you have the most opportunity to do something crazy with your life. Not even something crazy, just something out of your comfort zone, something that can increase your perspective of what happened

- Just try some shit out. If it doesn't work out, try some different shit until it clicks. - Yeah, if you're about to go to university at some point and you're maybe looking for courses or whatever, dude, look around for like international stuff or whatever. There's tons out there. - Anything that you can- - It'll be fun as fuck. - Yeah, trust me. Like I remember the biggest adventure I'd gone on is just moving cities to go to my university town. And as-

in England, every city is kind of the same. You get the kind of same kind of experience. You get fresh as week, you go drink a fuck ton. It's the same for, it was like the same experience no matter what university I would have gone to. And I wish I'd studied abroad. I'd wish I'd done something new and,

I feel like after I quit to become a YouTuber, I was like gaining back the years that I could have had if I just got out of my comfort zone early in my life. - Yeah, I've definitely been doing that. Like since I've gotten like so many opportunities doing this job, I feel like I'm just like playing a catch up game of like,

I'm taking literally everything that comes to my doorstep now because I didn't take any of that shit back then. And now I regret it being like, oh fuck, why was I so lazy and dumb to like not take these like, now that I look at it, amazing fucking opportunities. Now I know that,

everything that comes to me, even if it seems dumb or like pointless or whatever, I'm just gonna fucking take it. - Yeah, I mean, I let "League of Legends" ruin my life. So I'm just, I did far too many hours in the "League of Legends" and I'm like, I want something- - You know what? I'm gonna try something else. "Apex Legends." - I quit "League of Legends." I might try "Happiness" at once, I don't know.

I don't know. I'll see how it works out for me. - See which one I prefer. - See if it's for me. I'll see if being happy works out for me. - This thing called happiness. What is that? - What is this? - League players be like. - I've heard about that before. - Oh my God, I hate League of Legends.

- I was so, I've never felt more empowered than leaving League of Legends. I feel like, wow, I have more time for shit now. Look at that, look at that. - I feel like that, I haven't touched a gacha game in a while. - Good for you. - Yeah, I mean, the only reason I haven't is because I filled that time with learning Japanese and I'm just like, well, if I'm gonna have time wasted doing something every day, then I might as well do it

- I think that's not a waste then Garnt. - Yeah, exactly. - So it's not a time waste. - Oh, I should say time sink. 'Cause learning a language is definitely a time sink. - League of Legends is not an hour time sink. It's like a four hour time sink minimum. And then you get angry after it. At least for Japanese, you're like frustrated after it. You're not angry. - You're optimizing adulthood right now, Garnt. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Exactly. - You know who else loves taking opportunities and risks? Our patrons.

I just, I don't know. That's a wild accusation, but I'm sorry if you're a non risk taker patron, but- - That was like a segue that just veered off and crashed, man. An attempt was made. - Yeah, an attempt was made. - As usual, look at these lovely patrons who are now funding this new studio. We literally,

- Our patrons are now funding the studio. Thank you very much for letting us move to a place with adequate space. - It has been an extremely, extremely expensive move, but you guys have made it possible and we've got all the new equipment and it all looks good. And we think the quality shows for itself. - Absolutely. - I think it looks banging. - We literally could not do this without you guys. And I know we said this previous episode where

We didn't expect "Trash Taste" to be as popular as it was, but yeah, I mean, we hope the results there. - I just can't speak to that. - We hope you enjoy the results because this was all thanks to you guys. - We hope the results show. - I think we're all slightly tired boys today. This has been a calm episode of "Trash Taste." - Definitely. - Hasn't it? I feel like we've talked about a lot of this episode. - Have we? I don't know. - We've gone on many tangents.

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