Trash Taste Podcast - Our Terrible Boomer Takes | Trash Taste #62

Episode Date: August 20, 2021

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What up squad, welcome back to another episode of the Trash Taste Podcast. I'm Joey and I'm with the boys. And you know, the most depressing intro we've had here. What, what do you mean? I'm with the boys. Yeah. Did you even have any pre-talk there?

We're just like, like, we just- Hey guys. I didn't even know, I didn't even know we were recording. I was like, oh wait, is the lights on? I'm rolling, we're rolling? I feel like door with the explorer energy as opposed to Clockwork Orange Energy. You want Door of the Explorer energy?

Yeah, I'll give you door with the Explorer energy. Hey everybody, it's time for Trash Tate! podcast. Are you ready? Hold on, I need- Good. Hold on, I need a bit more time for this coffee to sink in from these amazing mugs that we're drinking out of right now. Is that a trash taste mug? We've already been promoting them by this point.

But we are actually drinking out of them. Yeah, we're drinking out of them for once. These are the first branch, though, so the lid's a little too big. But the ones that you guys are drinking from, we won't have a big ass lid. Yeah, it will be, the lid will fit a lot better. But I really like these mugs.

I mean, we've already promoted them, you already know. You already know what we're talking about. We don't know how good or bad it did. But we're just like, maybe everyone hates them and this is like a poorly aged episode. I don't know. A poorly aged episode. But it's been roughly two weeks, I think,

since we all gathered last time. Yeah, it doesn't, it feels a lot longer. Like two weeks without the boys, Jesus. I don't know how I went so long without seeing you guys so often before we moved to Japan. Like, well, it just feels like a part of my life has just like been taken away from me. just because I didn't record a podcast.

Because I think last time I saw Connor, we were getting our second shot. On my birthday. Yeah, which was like, which felt like a month ago. Yeah, that was like a week ago though. God, how fucked were you guys for the second shot? I was very sick. Yeah, yeah.

The 5G. Yeah, the 5G. So for the record, we got Moderna shots. Yeah. So did you guys feel anything for the first shots? Well, I had that like lower back pain. Oh yeah, we did talk about that, didn't we? Yeah.

And I was like the, I mean, like, obviously like, you know, the arm that we got the shot Like a motherfucker, but like, for some reason, only Aki and I got this like really bad lower back pain. I got it on the second dose. You got on the second dose. Yeah, my lower back was hurting all day. Didn't it feel like someone just like drop kicked you in the back?

He was more of like an uncomfortable. Like someone was like poking my back constantly. And I couldn't, I couldn't get it. I don't know why. Oh no, mine was like if someone was like fucking doing that to my lower back just constantly. It's like, oh. Maybe when you and Aki are sleeping,

she wakes up and just does like, WrestleMania. And then vice versa when. Just like, practice his elbow. I'm sleeping. Lady Bear just invades your dream and just like, ah. Maybe you passed Ladybeard in the hallway. Yeah, could be.

That's the chat energy pulled my back out. It's like nightmare on Elm Street, right? Like anything it does in your dreams just like affects you in real life. Freddy Krueger just came out from the band. Just stab me in the back. I had a fantastic birthday celebrating by being sick. Yeah, oh yeah.

It was a beautiful birthday. You're like the, because we all shared on like our line message that we have, like the how, what the, temperature of everyone's loss. Yours was through the fucking roof. You were like, you were like 39 degrees. I was like, is this the last time gonna see this man?

39. Yeah. Oh fuck, I didn't realize it went that high. It was like actually dangerous levels. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't feel like I was sick when I woke up. When I woke up, I was like, wow, it's just kind of, it's kind of hot, isn't it?

Oh, really? It's a little bit, it's kind of what a fever is, you know? Well, I didn't particularly feel bad. I felt, I've had fevers before where I felt really sick. Yeah, I didn't feel good. But this one I was just like, wow, I'm just really hot. Oh, really? Wow.

And then I got out of bed and I went to take my temperature and I was like, oh, it's, it's high. Yeah, it's how. I'm cooking from the inside. It's probably well. And then I was like, okay, I'm gonna go and get some energy drink from the store. Not the energy drink, I'll like gate rate or whatever,

you know, just like the generic water. I was gonna say, Red Bull is probably not the best thing to be drinking on a fever. It's literally just any drink that's water featuring sugar. One of those drinks. Like Pocari Swits. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I got it and then about the time I got home, I was like, okay, no, I actually think I feel sick now. I think I feel pretty, Pretty shitty. Yeah. And so I didn't do anything. I think it's the opposite for me. I immediately woke up in like all of my joints

were just aching like crazy. But it was weird because I checked my temperature and I only had like 37 or something. So I only had like a slight fever. But man, my bones were just rattled. Yeah, it was really weird for me because I woke up and I felt like completely fun. I woke up to like we have like a group chat

where like all the staff members of trash taste were just like, are we recording today? And everyone posted that temperature and we're like, no, we're definitely not recording today. No, that's not a thing that's happening. And then I took my temperature, and mine was just like 37 on the door. And I was like, yeah, I feel completely fine. And got up, started doing work, be like, oh, these guys just have weak immune systems.

God, like, Zen. Yeah, imagine having weak immune systems. And a fucking, like, two o'clock rolls over. Seeing on my computer, I'm like, oh, I'm getting chills. What's happening here? What's happening here? Yeah, yeah. And then I went from, like, being completely fine to just, like, having the worst headache

and just probably just having the flu. So I'm just like, man, this a vaccine's got hands, man. It's fucking fighting, man. This has been delayed, wasn't it? Yeah, it was a bit delayed. So like, yeah, in the end, I just, I woke up completely fine and then for like most of the day after 2 p.m., I was just completely bedridden.

Yeah, oh yeah. How long were you guys in bed for? I don't know, I was watching the Olympics. I was, you know, just chilling. Oh, yeah. Just watching people do sports. And I was like, wow, that could be me. I still haven't seen anything from the Olympics,

except the opening ceremony. I saw that because we had like a little viewing party at our place. Because one of our friends really wanted to see the opening for some of it. And to be fair, it's probably like the most interesting part of the Olympics, honestly. I don't know about that, but I'll come on that.

I mean, if you're not into sport, right? I feel like you don't even need to be into sport to be into the Olympics. Oh no, like, I like sport. There's some good story lines, you know. It's a story. I mean, sure. But like, I think for like the majority of people

who aren't into sport and don't care about their Olympics, the opening and ending ceremony, probably like the two biggest highlights of like the same. I don't really care about sports in general. I don't, I don't know why, something about the Olympics is just fun.

It's something where it's just sport that's on all day and it's changing constantly between events so you don't have a chance to get bored. Look, I'm watching like, you know, I might be watching the cycling for too long. I'm like, all right, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, and then it keeps changing and then like, now, like what the fuck's going on?

Like what is actually, right, right, or who is winning? I mean, yeah, for me the Olympics, I've never been really too interested in the Olympics, it's probably one of my least favorite sporting events, just because there's a bit too much going on for me. Like, at least, no, because we talked about,

least favorite sporting events. Yeah, I mean, I mean, we talked about storylines. What's worse than the Olympics? What's worse than the Olympics? Every other sporting event. I don't know. What's better than the Olympics? Well, I like most major sporting events

when there, when there's like a board count. League does count. Dude, league does count. I fucking love the league final. What are you my fucking dad? Yeah. Video games ain't. What if I listen?

I love the World Cup, I love the Euro's, I love the Rugby World Cup as well. It's, it's just like, for me, it's easier to follow along the storyline if just, there's just like one event or one tournament going on. Right, right. With the Olympics, it's just like, what stage are we at? What, what sport is this?

I don't need, I've never even heard of this sport. What the fuck is Handball? How do I get invested in Handball? When I don't even know the fucking rules of Handball. I totally agree with you. And so I could have watched it on Japanese TV. The problem is, is that I don't understand

fully what's being said all the time. Yeah. And I feel like, I realized when I'm watching on Japanese TV, I'm like, wow, actually like knowing who the people are and why I should give a shit is actually really important. Oh yeah. I thought just being able to leave it on the background, that'd be entertaining enough. I mean, that's the whole point of commentators.

Right, so I got my VPN and I watched it on the British website. Did you use ExpressVPN? I did use ExpressVPN. Hell yeah. And yeah, I was watching with the British commentary, and the commentary was really good. And it was, I didn't realize how much it added

to it because there's some commentary that had me like actually dying, like laughing. Like, uh, I think the British rowing team didn't win like any gold medals. And one of the commentators just couldn't hold back. He was so pissed off. And he was like, the absolute state of British rowing. We invested 27 million pounds in British rowing. And we didn't get a single gold medal. And it was just like live on TV like right after they just lost. And it's like, he's like, he's like no chill. And I was like, I felt embarrassed. I'm like, imagine you're the rowers that made this guy on BBC go off on one. Just like on a tirade.

Legendary. This is like all the other good sports. I don't know anything about, like Taekwondo, I don't know anything about. But the commentators help explain everything as you're going. And it is annoying when you're watching it for too long because then they start over again.

And they start explaining it again because they assume that people are only watching for short amounts of time. Yeah, because nobody knows what the hell the rules are. Yeah, yeah, it's great. I mean, I was watching like diving as well. Diving is really fun to watch.

Oh yeah, diving is super fun to watch. It was really fun. I was like, well, okay, I'm really invested. I think that's the only like sports that I like in the Olympics, it's like just the obscure ones that you never get to see otherwise. So it's like, with like tennis and rugby,

it's like, you know, that's playing all year out, right? Rugby is shit in the Olympics. Have you seen it? Yeah, it's pretty bad. It's like five minutes aside or something and there's only like 10 minutes of rugby. Well, most major sports that have like bigger competitions are like pretty shit in the Olympics, I find.

They send like the B team. Yeah, yeah. They don't send like the actual. You look at like the football or the rugby or like the tennis or stuff like. Yeah, there's baseball there. Yeah, there's baseball. Yeah, it's baseball.

Or like basketball as well, right? It's basketball. Yeah. Yeah, like sports that have like a competition that's just more prestigious than the Olympics for that specific sport. I feel like it just takes a bit of the wind out. The real magic of the Olympics is watching

this small sport that you've never heard. Well yeah, because a lot of these sports don't have any major leagues to, you know, push them and give them a lot of money and the Olympics during time when they get to. I did see a bit of like the skateboarding because I was interested in that. I think Japan got a gold medal in it.

Yeah, like it's all kids as well. Yeah. It's all like 10 year old kids. Yeah. I'm like, fuck dude. God, imagine winning a fucking, right? I was like, what was I doing it 10 years old? I realized, Washington Olympics this year has been awful.

Like every single athlete, right? He looks like 30. They interview, he's like, 21, and he's just won the gold medal. I'm like, what the fuck, man? This man is built like a Greek god and he's won a medal, and he's got a shit together. What I do it? Like, you've reached that point where I,

you've reached that point when you grew up to me, everyone in the Olympics is younger than me. Yeah, no, no, not even the Olympics. Or when you grow, when you, when you're young, everyone you watch on TV, it's just older than you. And it's just like something you get used to. Like, every athlete, every athlete, Every major personality is just older than you.

And then you get to a point we start seeing people that's younger than you and achieving these amazing things. Achieving these amazing things and like starting football teams. And I'm like, at 21 I was fucking masturbating and eating Cheetos. Like, meanwhile, this kid's just won a fucking Olympic gold medal. Yeah, I was getting really pissed off because every single time they introduced someone, they were just younger than me.

I'm like, what the fuck is this? Where's the 30 year old? Get him in. What does he do? He's the veteran. He's the coach. Like, bro. The coach is like 27 years old.

It's like, Jesus. It's pissing me off. I'm like, this is, surely there has to be someone age 24. That's why I kind of almost prefer the Winter Olympics at a lot of times, because I feel that in the Winter Olympics, there's more of those like more niche sports that you really only get to see in the Olympics. Otherwise you really have to go Dean for it.

Like curling, for example, is like, I never thought I would care about curling. Until I watched the curling like two Winter Olympics back. And I'm like, damn, I want to try this. This looks fun as fuck, because I didn't even know the rules to curling at first. I was like, it's just a bunch of people scrubbing some ice. Like, all right, cool. But then when you actually like learn the intricacies

of the game, it's just like, all right, that's actually like really cool. I don't understand why like every country just doesn't agree to take like a week off during the Olympics. What, to just sit down and watch it? Just sit down and chill and watch it. Why not? Every country can, you know, have a week off.

Seems like the world economy might have a different, a small issue with that. Oh no. That's hard. Oh no. I mean, it's like once every, what, four years, right? Yeah, yeah. A week off?

Yeah. I mean, okay. A week off in four years. Do you get patriotic at all during the Olympics? I listen to what the commentators tell me to do. The commentators tell me I should care about something. I'm like, all right, I'm caring. Do you get patriotic at all about any sporting event?

Yeah, League of Legends. I want the EU boys to win. Oh, I mean, obviously, I want you boys to win. Again, anything else? For me, the World Cup and the Euros. I actually stayed up to watch the Euros and watch England get beaten this time. And the finals, once again. Good.

And how was that? It was horrible. Had to record trash taste like the day as well, which is why I was- Stayed up to like 4 a.m. Yeah, remember last time we record trash this while I was absolutely dead? Yeah.

It's because I was like watching fucking England, just int! Well, see, I do get patriotic over like Wales and rugby, I want Wales to win rugby. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And then if Wales get knocked out of something and England is still in it,

it's like, okay, now I'm rooting for England to lose. You'd think he would be like, you'd think most of it would be like, I'm going for England. Yeah, I want England to win. It's like, no, no, no, it's like, I can't let England win now. Yeah, yeah. They'll never let, they never, the problem is with English people is that they're the

worst when they win at the sport they like. They, yeah. Every time they win, it's like every single country hates them. Because they're just, they somehow are the worst country at winning. Yeah, they're like bad losers. Yeah. All bad winners. Well, it's just like every single country hates having the fans in their country. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's terrible. Like, like people think, because you're Welsh, part of Great Britain, and if Welsh on in it, you can know you've root for England, right? And it's the complete fucking opposite. Except if it's the other way around, like, I remember when Andy Murray won Wimbledon, it was like, it was like Britain's first win in Wimbledon for God knows how many years. It was like fucking decades, right? And it was like

the only time where like a British, like English people are happy to cheer for like Scottish people because Annie Murray Scottish, I believe. Yeah. But they aren't happy to cheer the other way around. Everyone hates English people, right? That's true. And normally English people, and normally English People won't cheer for Scottish people, Welsh people, but once it's Great Britain, everything's fine. Everyone's buddy buddy, buddy again. It's Team G.B now.

Which is really fucking confusing, because depending on the sport, it's totally up to the sport, whether or not it's a Welsh, Scottish and English team. Or if it's a British team or some, I think there's one or two sports where Wales and England are combined, but Scotland isn't.

So it's really confusing. That whole system of Wales, Scotland, is just so confusing to someone outside of that country. Like, I've had it explain to me about three or four times. I believe by you two, and I still don't understand what it is. It's not that complicated.

I'm like, so what's considered UK, what's Great Britain, what's the Commonwealth, what's all of this shit? Like, it's just really confusing to me. I mean, do we wanna get, do we, just watch CBC Gray video. Yeah, there's plenty of videos on it. I could try and explain it.

Yeah, there's plenty of videos on it. We're not gonna explain it. Yeah. But you should learn that Wales exists. See, but at least like, you know, in the case with like Wales in England, right? Like, at least you got, you know, I feel a lot of the same sports

you guys are either good at or bad at, right? So like say for example, like in the rugby, right? Wales and England, pretty good. Yeah. They're not like top top, but they're, you know, usually stay up near the top, right? So like, at least you have that choice. Yeah.

I don't have that choice with my two countries because sports that Australia is good at, Japan sucks at. Sports that Japan is good at Australia sucks at. So like in the soccer, right, like Japan's pretty good. Australia is shit. In the cricket, Japan didn't, don't even play cricket. And same with the, and like the rugby is probably like

the only thing because, you know, I think last Rugby World Cup, Japan came like eighth, I think, like top eight or something. It was hosted in Japan. Yeah, which is hype as fuck, right? Because Japan is never that good. That was the only time where I was like, all right, Japan, you did good, but I'm gonna have to go back

to Sweden after that. Is Australia good to rugby? Yeah, Australia's really good, and they're in top four. Yeah. I don't watch sports often, mainly because of a, it's just, you know, especially when we live in this time zone? What the fuck is this shit happening? The reason why it's so easy me to keep along with the Olympics

is because it's just all day. Yeah, yeah. Great, I wake up, it's on, I go to bed, it's on. Like, it's perfect. I mean, that's kind of what I liked about big sporting competitions, you know, any age I was where you turn on the TV and it's just sports playing and it's just fun. And it's fun to watch something where every match matters to somebody.

I just wish I knew more about who was competing in the Olympics. No way you can though. Like there's no way you can. There's so much information and then, you know, even like, I was getting confused because even in like some of the sports, like Taekwondo or some of the martial arts, It's like weight divisions. And there's so many weight divisions,

and there's so many competitors in the weight divisions, and there might be multiple ones from your country in the one weight division. So it's really hard to be like, right, who am I rooting for? What the fuck is going on? I just see the flag and I'm like, oh, I recognize that one, go that one.

That's basically what it boils down to, right? It's just like, I like that country. Let's see that country do well. It's like, oh, I've never heard of Liechtenstein before. I think they're good at this sport. Go there. Did they compete in the Olympics? I don't even know.

There's a lot, dude, like, okay, watching the opening ceremony, And you know how they have to go through all the countries that were competing in. There was like over 100 countries that were competing this year, but it was funny because they were going, not in alphabetical order.

They were going in like Japanese, like, Higagana order, which is completely different. I was wondering what kind of order they were going in. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like the most weird order that had been done. That's why there were like, you know, some countries starting with C that came after countries starting with K.

Because in Japanese alphabet, it's like in the same order. So like, I remember my sister in Australia was texting me because she was watching it as well. And she was like, oh, it's really funny because these Australian commentators have been explaining for the past 10 minutes why these countries are coming out in this order. They literally have to explain the Japanese writing system

to an Australian fucking audience to be like, okay, so hear me out, this is how it works and this is why it's the weird order. But like, I heard, dude, there were so many countries in there where I was like, that sounds like a made up word. Like that's not a real country. Some of them on, I'm correct, on even countries.

Like, I think like, some of them are like micro nations. Yeah, some of the more territories or other countries. Like there's the Cayman Islands as well is listed as a certain country as well. I don't think that is. Dude, I saw some drama happen live while I was watching, boxing.

There was like a British guy versus a French guy. And I mean, that's drama already. Yeah, that's drama already. Which is that, I mean, Let's go back to history. Yeah, yeah. That's hundreds of years of drama right there. Napoleon just makes a fucking, like,

expose video or whatever. Yeah, it was literally like that. And they were boxing, right? And so obviously when you're boxing, sometimes they do the hugging thing. Yeah. And it's like, okay, cool. So when they were doing the hugging thing,

like I think the French guy was like headbutting, the British guy. Oh shit. And he like made him bleed. And the ref was like, hey, don't do that again. He did it again. And then he just immediately disqualified him. Right, right, right.

The French guy. Yeah. Yeah. And he had a fucking mend down, like a mental breakdown. It started like shouting and stuff, going up till the cameras, be like, no I won, no I won into the cameras. And they were like announcing it and he was like,

no, stop announcing it, stop announcing it. Stop the count. Yeah, yeah, he was like, stop, this is bullshit, there's no way. And he was like, thrown a massive fit. It was so crazy. Jesus Christ, how did I not see that? I don't know, I, when it was happening, I was like, oh shit, am I watching drama live?

Yo, shit. And I went to, I didn't want any good person watching God. Literally just watched World Star. Yeah, I was watching the highly televised World Star. It was great, the live league thing started popping up like midway. It was great. I immediately went to Twitter,

as any good person would, when featuring drama. I was like, oh, this is great. So I went to Twitter and I watched it, and I was just watching everyone else, talk about the drama I was watching. Oh, that's weird, because I've seen so many clips of the Olympics on Twitter. There's a lot more drama in the Olympics that happened.

Yeah. I think I've watched more Olympics on Twitter than I have on television. The only clips I saw at the Olympics was that they were playing a lot of anime music. Yeah, a lot of people doing anime stuff, yeah. So when you come out in boxing, you're allowed to play your own music.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And some of them, one of them are demon slayer, one of the Japanese guy. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw there was a Greek person who did, yeah, did like gear two in one piece. And won the fucking, what, gold medal as well.

What a bad ass. I think he said a record as well, so I'm just like, yo, one piece stands, fan, one piece stands, like, fucking stand up, man. Yeah, the, I think one of the volleyball matches with the Japanese team, they were playing the haiku theme as well, like, during like the interval and stuff, and I'm like, that's so cool.

But yeah, like, the opening set, the only cool part about the opening ceremony was the fact that, from what I saw, because like, admittedly, like, compared to some of the other opening ceremonies that I've seen. It was a very artistic one, I'd say. Yeah. You know what that means.

Artistic. It was very bare bones. It was bare bones. Like the references, I think that people were looking for were not in the opening. So I think a lot of people are hoping that it comes out in the ending ceremony. But I think the only cool thing was that

during the time when all of the countries were coming out, because that's like an hour and a half segment of all the countries coming out. They were playing like just basically the entire discography of Square Inex games. Like literally every Square Enix game you could think of, they were playing the musical. So like they literally opened with like the Dragon Quest theme

and like they're playing Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, like fucking near, they've played a fucking near automata song. Yeah, I heard the nearer song. But not just any near automata song, literally the most darkest depressing near automata song that plays in like a really sad scene in the game. Oh my God.

And it's like, Malta and it's just like, fucking like, ooh, this is fucking sad near automata music. It was really weird. But like I'm just thinking like, because you know, I think the biggest question everyone had who watched the opening is like, where's all the Nintendo shit? Yeah, that's what I was.

Where's Pokemon? Where's Mario? Where's all that stuff that they promised that like, it's kind of hard because normally Japan has been quite patriotic with all of its, especially Pokemon. Japan is not as, what's the word? Japan's not been scared to embrace Pokemon as a national symbol. And like, you know, considering the fact

that at the end of the last Olympics, yeah, the Mario thing. Yeah, like our prime minister came out out of a pipe dressed as Mario. Well, it could be a thing of Nintendo didn't want to do it or it could have been a thing of- Or I think what a lot of people are waiting for is because they were like,

Square Enix, we'll let you take the opening. But Nintendo is the end- I don't know. I think that's what people are hoping. By the time this has come out, we'll know the answer to that. Yeah, I guess so. But like, as of right now, that's what I think all the theories are.

Yeah. I mean, like, do you think the opening was purposefully done the way it is, or is it just because of the world situation that they couldn't make it bigger. I feel, that's what I assume that was. I think it's the latter. Did you go back and watch other opening ceremonies?

I did. Yeah, I watched the, I watched the one at the Beijing Olympics. Like, that one was insane compared to, like, Japanese. I mean, the Japanese one was good, don't get me wrong. But I definitely did feel that I think the world situation really did screw it over in a lot of ways. Yeah. Because I was like, I like the idea that they were going for,

but I feel it was like a little underperformed. Just like, where's the budget? Yeah, right? It really did. The first one had the fucking Queen's style. Yeah, yeah. I'm like, how much did that cost? Yeah.

Yeah, the Daniel Craig be James Bond. There's no way he did that for less than like 50 million dollars. Exactly. He literally hates James Bond. Why would he, as we've established, why would he wanna do that? Exactly, right? For Queen and country, obviously.

Bullshit. So that's why I was hoping that like, you know, that's why I was hoping that like, you know, they would have at least, you know, some more like notable, big, big people coming out in the opening, right? Because like, that's, you know, the way to like, open for your country and like be braggadocious

about your country for once, but I feel that like. Yeah, it's the one time you can actually brag. Yeah, right? And like people are waiting for you to brag. But like, I feel like the references that they did throw in were like super fucking subtle and like kind of offhand almost. Yeah, love, what was that guy that was tap dancing? I didn't get that.

He was literally, okay, yeah. He was literally, I think it was he's the greatest tap dancer in Japan. Wait, so explain what was going on? I watched him, I don't remember this. So there was this tap. So what they did instead was instead of bringing out these like notable names. They brought out like Japan's best blank. So like they had like Japan's best tap dancer and he was performing and they're like they're like, they had Japan's

best like jazz pianist. I do remember this and I think I was like why are they bringing in tap dances in Japan? Yeah. Yeah. Also during a really like traditional like wood scene as well and I'm like this it's like 400 years difference between tap dancing and like edo period. You know what I think Japan I don't think tap dancing and jazz piano. I don't think tap dancing and jazz piano. I don't think tap dancing and jazz piano. It was just so surreal, seeing like a tap dancer dancing on a stage with nothing on it to a crowd of zero people in a stadium that's meant for like 30,000 people. Yeah. Oh, it's so depressing seeing all the stadiums empty. Yeah, I actually read that they, so the guy who designed like the actual stadium he to make, you know, because obviously they couldn't put people into

the stadium. So what they did was he purposely designed the seats and arranged the colors to make it look like there were people sitting from a distance. What? How can you do that? There did not look like there were people sitting in the distance. You decide if that was, if that actually worked. I can say I tried to make my fart smell like water mount. Doesn't mean it fucking worked. You know what I mean? A shit lot of watermen.

What do you mean? You tried, you fucking didn't. That was the intent, I think. Yeah. But yeah, obviously, you know, to varying degrees of success. I mean, I think a lot of it was unfortunate because I think another thing about the tap dancing is that because the stadium was so big and I don't think the microphones were sensitive enough. I can hardly fucking hear it. It was at that point, it was just like fucking stepping with attitude.

That's kind of what it felt like. The commentators, even in the, I was watching it on Japanese TV, they were explaining what was going on more than they were letting their audio play. Yeah. So how good of an opening ceremony is that if I need, I actually need a narrator telling me what's happening? Like legit, some of the stuff was so avant-garde. Yeah, it was crazy.

But like 60% of the commentators were like doing a fucking like audio commentary. Yeah, they were describing exactly what was going on. Yeah, it's like, so this represents blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, just let me watch it. Shut up. Just let me watch it. It's not very good if I can't discern what's going on. Right? Exactly.

Yeah, I was watching it through the British commentary. And there wasn't actually much commentary, because I think they were just as confused as it. What's going on? Also, it's not a good opening ceremony if you fucking talk over all of it. Yeah, exactly. I don't go watch of mice and men

and have someone narrating in my ear what's why Lenny is doing all this shit. You know what I mean? I don't need this shit. Let it speak for itself. That's, oh my God. I think the speech afterwards of like the Olympic Committee actually went on for longer than the performance

I zoned out. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, I don't know. Like maybe that was because of a budget problem. Maybe it's because of the world situation. But I mean, like, I think a lot more people, I think the only good thing that came out of it

was probably Square Inix's stocks went, because of like the amount of music they used at the beginning. I want to know how Square Enix was basically just got over to like take over the opening ceremony. Yeah. I have no idea. Because there's so many other like Japanese slip someone on tenor, man. Yeah, honestly.

But they literally like, you know, had the actual spotlight at that point. Like, I remember as well, Like it wasn't just Square Enix music. They literally played a song from fucking Sonic Adventure 2. Are you serious? There was, yeah, one of the songs that played in the set, because the set piece, like, was leaked on Twitter before the actual, like, beginning of that segment.

And in the list, there was a fucking Sonic song. Rolling around at the speed at sand. It wasn't that one. I think if that one played, I would have actually lost my mind. I would go, I would give it a standing ovation, bro. I would have been like, they did it. They fucking did it. Best opening ceremony of all time.

Woo! But yeah, they legit, I don't think it was Sonic Adventure 2, it was one of the Sonic games, but they legitimately played a Sonic song, and I'm just like- I mean, Sonic's pretty fucking iconic. I mean, hey man, like, they did it, I guess. How did Sega get into then Nintendo just didn't then? And I think that's why, like,

that's where the confusion arose of like, okay, so like, obviously more people know, when you think of Japan from like a foreigners perspective, you think Pokemon and Mario. Yeah. Like, you don't think of Final Fantasy in Sonic. Would you say something's more famous than Final Fantasy It is, right?

Sonic? Yeah. Probably. Isn't that weird? Because he's only, he's only had like three good games. Yeah. He literally just like, he's cashing on the brand. Yeah, he's literally cashing on the brand recognition.

He is, he is, Sonic is one of the-Sonic riders, though. Okay, Sonic riders is good. I recognize that it is not the best game. Sonic Riders, Battle Adventure 2 is good and- Sonic Heroes was weirdly good too. But isn't it strange though how Sonic hasn't had like the biggest smash hit games, yet he's still like the one of the most recognizable games. That's the thing.

Sonic is purely surviving off of character design. Brand recognition, bro. Like, he's just an icon. His character design is fucking brilliant. It's brilliant. It's gotta be all porn. I'm convinced it's all porn. That too.

But it's just the cult following, right? Like, yeah, after Sonic, uh, the, Sonic 3, right? Like, we haven't had a single like good Sonic game. Oh, mania, mania. Well, I mean, yeah. But it means kind of remake of that. Yeah, I mean, it's up for debate, right? I mean, it's all like been 2D Sonics.

They hasn't been a good 3D Sonic. All the 2D Sonics were fantastic. All the 3D Sonic, except for writers, was absolutely trash. And yet, they can somehow pump out all these shit Sonic games, and people are still just like, I mean, the next one might be better.

Do you play Marion Sonic at the Olympic Games? No, I haven't. I fucking love that. Oh, I remember that. Yeah. I've always wanted to play that game. On the 2008, Beijing Olympics one, you couldn't get a copy of that in the UK.

It was like solo everywhere. I'm surprised they didn't do a re-release for this Olympics. I think they did last year. They did last year. Yeah, they did last year. Good evening. It's me, The Monk. Have you ever listened to Trash Tate and Thoughts?

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download the free anchor app, or go to anchor.fm to get started. Anyway, back to the episode. One thing that I noticed that I saw a lot of athletes complaining about was how bad the temperature is here. Oh, yeah. How bad the heat is? It's absolutely brutal here. These poor people doing like triathlons and stuff and like cross-country cycling and like it looks great on TV you can't even

tell it looks hot like it just looks like oh good weather it's it's disgusting here yeah I mean we talked about this last week but the summer here is fucking it's insane and just these poor athletes you have to like hour long events in this heat right right now where we are it is 34 degrees but because of the humidity it feels like 41 degrees insane it did it do be like that like even just walking from the train station to the office. Like it's a nice, like, brisk, five, 10 minute walk. I'm fucking dying time I get to. I don't care where you live or what fucking temperature it is. No one should be doing sports in 41 fucking Celsius. No one should be doing a triathlon. I don't care if you were raised in the fucking magma crust of this earth. I know there's going to be one comment who's like,

oh, it's 50 right? Fuck off. Yeah, you're not doing a triathlon in a 50 degree life. Oh my God. Yeah, I'm wondering how the fuck are they doing this or how is like anyone meant to compete in this I wonder why. I'm pretty sure I read something. I could be totally wrong on this one, that apparently they did try and ask, Japan did try and tell them like, hey, we should do it in like September or something. Yeah.

But the IOC was like, nope, no, we're doing it in July. And of all the sports that are like perfect for this heat, aka the swimming, is done indoors. Yeah. So it's like, no point. At least do that outside, you know, if we feel good for the athletes. Yeah, Jesus, I feel bad now.

I didn't even think about that. They must be absolutely dying out there I hate, dude. It's brutal. Riparonis. Yeah. Yeah, but like, I mean, how much is left of the Olympics now that we are? I don't know, not many of what days left.

Well, we are. Because it's been like, it's only like two week events, isn't it? Yeah, we're on like day. Yeah, yeah. Shit. We're on like day 12 or something. I thought it was like, I thought it was like a couple of months or something. No, it has to be done.

It's like, I think one of the rules in the contract with the Olympics committee to the local government is that it needs to be done within like two weeks. Oh wow. And no longer, no less. Like it has to. Why does it feel like every Olympics, it lasts so much long longer than that. I think because it's just so stacked.

Because you get so, like the hype for it is built up more than any E3 event tenfold. Yeah, yeah. And he get any, no man's sky wishes that it had this much hype. Like, because everything in, in like, you know, we've lived in Japan for like two years now, right? And since day one, since we've been here, you've been seeing Tokyo 2020 stuff everywhere.

Like, it's insane. Like everything is Tokyo 2020. Like you go and get a chocolate bar. Tokyo 2020 is on it. For some reason, I don't know why. Why is he's on here? Well, we did actually buy some Tokyo 2020 motion dice, just because like, let's think about it, right?

Like, it's one of the few, if not the only Olympics that has ever had, you know, been in this like weird world situation where it's been delayed by a year. Yeah. Right? And it's like, it's so like telling of its, like, I think Aki bought a Tokyo 2020 face mask. Like that 50 years from now is going to be a great story to tell. Because it's like, you know, just to say that like, yeah, we lived through a time where it was such like an insane wall pandemic that we literally had to, A, cancel the Olympics for a year.

but B, everyone had to fucking wear this for two years. I mean, it's weird, right? Because I feel like this Olympics, the hype just, like you talked about the hype, but I just haven't felt the hype at all. Well, because I think last year, before COVID hit, the hype was definitely big. Oh, yeah, yeah, it was definitely there.

But, like, I think the moment COVID hit and it got pushed back a year is when... And then the hype for COVID happened. Yeah, and then I think pretty much the jamming people just turned against the Olympics. And they were like, we don't want it anymore. Yeah. Even though Japan is doing exceedingly well this Olympics as well.

Are they? Oh yeah, they've won a lot of gold medals already. Yeah, they're third right now, I think. Oh, shit, okay. Yeah, they're doing very well. Yeah, see, I just haven't been following along as much as I used to just because, I don't know, just, like I said, the hype just doesn't feel there obviously in Japan

because Japanese people don't want it to happen for obvious reasons. But also, like, internationally, it just feels like there's been a lot less talk about it as well. You see, like, the odd article, you see the odd article. It's been a rough year, I think. I think also, like, political situations, getting rough and you're seeing it in the Olympics as well.

Yeah, it's been, it's been in a lot of talks, just not for the right reasons. Yeah, it just feels like, you know, at least like Olympics pre, I don't know, like 2012, 2016, maybe not 2016, I don't know, didn't feel as like fucked, like politically as well. Yeah. I think there's a lot of politics in it now.

And that always was, maybe I was just younger and I didn't realize, but it just, yeah, it feels very tense. Yeah, yeah, I mean, the world is, you know, in a tense state right now, just in general. So it definitely just doesn't help, everyone's just on edge now. Yeah, I mean like it's, you know,

everyone loves the idea of the Olympics, just like the every nation gets together and we just play a bunch of sports. Put our differences aside. Put our differences aside and play some, friendly competitions. Friendly competitions. And you know, in any other Olympics,

I feel like that is the case. In this Olympics, it just feels like, nobody really like, everyone's just forgotten to care because everyone's just like, can we just have the world open back up? Yeah, I just want to go to Denny's. I see the empty seats there. It's reminding me that it's,

still a depressing situation in the world. Well, most of the world at least. So I don't know, it's, it's, it's been difficult. Yeah, definitely, definitely. Just wanted to be, how has, how has, who has been winning the Olympics? I have not been keeping up with it at all. China's winning right?

Well, it's always China and USA at the top, right? Yeah. Yeah. And then Japan, and then I think Australia and Britain are like neck and neck. Yeah. But I, it's hard to tell what's gonna happen. But I mean, China are USA normally always win. Yeah, they're usually the top.

And then that's like the, the Cold War-esque thing for them where it matters who wins that. Yeah, that's the friendly competition unless. Friendly. You've been a ranking? Yeah, yeah, what's the ranking? So People's Republic of China, 32 golds. Okay.

United States of America, 25 volts. Yeah. Okay. Japan number three with 20 gold. Oh, wow. Australia, 15 volts. Let's go! ROC, Republic of...

Oh, that's Russia. That's Russia. ROC is fifth, Great Britain six. Okay. I was wrong. isn't doing too well this Olympics, are we? Like that commentator said, man, an absolute embarrassment for British Roans.

Absolutely, absolute state. Oh, British Rohing. It was one of the events that Britain used to win, at least somewhat consistently. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's, I feel like it's somewhat big part of British culture. It's one of the only sports that's like,

one of the things where we actually have like a big deal about. Yeah, it's like rowing and cycling, right? That we usually... Cycling we normally have a really good turnout. British people love fucking cycling for some reason. Really? Like, we invent football.

and then everyone, every nation just beats us at football. So we're like, okay, we gotta find another sport now. I think we invented, do we invent cricket? I don't know if we invented cricket. I'm pretty sure we invented cricket. And rugby. Yeah. And then Australia was like, well, I saw that meme where it was like,

Britain, invent a sport gives this other country, they become better it. And then America was like, invent a sport, no one plays it, become number one. That's true. It's crazy. American football, Lamau. Have you watched the American football football?

Are you into it at all? No, but I love watching the drama around American football. It's very good. What drama? You know, there's always like, there's always documentaries about it. I watch, what is it,

Last Chance You, I think it's called Netflix. It's about like college football and they get like, the, they follow a team and try and get to win the league and it's just very funny. Oh. And it's just insane the lengths they go to get these kids to play football.

Based on a true story? No, it's like literally just following them. Oh, it's like a documentary. Yeah, they just literally pick a school and follow them. Oh, okay, yeah. And yeah, that's pretty good. on Netflix and watched the one thing about that NFL player

who like killed a guy. What? What? It was like an NFL player who like killed someone. And yeah, and these NFL players are crazy man. Like a lot of them are like, they did get up to very interesting stuff in their free time.

Like killing people. Yeah, yeah. Also like the whole thing where they get like mad concussions from it and they would get like brain damage. Like I've seen that Will Smith movie. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty rough, isn't it? Yeah. I mean, I watched the super,

I was about to say superb Al for a second. Super Bowl. I'm like, like, Super Bowl. My favorite. Super Bowl. Do you feel like it's like the most foreign thing on it, like to a British person?

Here in the words, Super Bowl. I'm like, what is that? Okay, okay. So, there's me watching the Super Bowl before I watch Eyeshield 21. And there's we watching Super Bowl after I've watched I Shield 21. See, I've watched Super Bowl. I feel like, where's the devil bad ghosts?

What the fuck? What's the road in drives? I watched Super Bowl after reading Ishield 21, which is a football manga. And I still don't know. what the fuck is going on. Really? Really? I kind of get the rules.

Well, you get the rules now, at least, right? But I don't understand how the Super Bowl is formed. How does it become? Who gets to play in the Super Bowl? What are the rules? Well, you follow the LEC and the LCS, right? It's exactly the same form. Yeah, they literally based league

from like American sports. Oh, why's called the Super Bowl? What about it? Because that's like the final, right? I don't know why it's called the Super Bowl. Is there a reason? It's just, why not the playoffs? That sounds good.

I understand the playoffs. The playoffs makes sense. Maybe it has to do, Maybe it has to do with the-Py-Wing. The playoffs lead to the Super Bowl, so the final of the playoffs. Oh, the Super Bowl is the name for the final match. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

British man learns about American football, man. I don't know, this is so foreign to me. I only know this because I follow League and League is based on like American football. I think it has to do with the name of like the actual, like, cup you win, right? Do you watch American football? Oh, yeah, no, that's not a ball or?

Oh, maybe it is, I don't know. I mean, that's why the ashes are called the ashes, right? No, I, you know more about, like, the American sports system than do, I do about cricket. So do you watch American football? I mean, I just, I watch the Super Bowl. And anytime I go to America, they're always watching football every week

and I pretend to care about. I watch the football in America when it's on TV. I don't like willingly go and watch it, but when it's on, I'm like, okay, that's pretty cool. Watching like normal football, you know, you get the ads just in the halftime. Yeah, it's when you get the ads. There's no other ads.

The 40 minutes is straight playing. Yeah. So it's really weird and jarring when I watched American football. And every time there's like an attempt, I think, there's an ad. And I was like, whoa. Yeah, because there's so many starts and stops. Yeah, yeah, there's starts and stops.

And of course they put ads there, but it's just so jarring. I'm like, fucking, I don't want to hear about fucking Cheetos and Bud Light, man. I just like, I can't do this. That's literally the two forces that drive the NFL. It was hard to get invested because every, every 10 seconds there'd be an ad.

And I was like, oh my God. I mean, it's just everything is monetized. Yeah, and also. Also, watching American TV in American hotels is really weird as well because, you know, we have our ads before the program starts. Yeah. And in the middle of the program.

Yeah. Right. And when I was watching American TV, I don't know if they changed it or what, but I was watching it. And they let the show play for like two minutes. And then they have an ad. And then they have an ad. Yeah. And I'm like, what is this? What is this? YouTube video? What is this? No, no, what the fuck is this? It's more consistent than a mid-roll.

It is, they put like two mid-rolls and two end rolls, because they have like the intro, they have like the click-bate intro. Yeah. Then they have an ad. And then the actual intro to the show plays, half the show plays, uh, ad, second half the show plays. And then they have an ad and then you know that there's like an end credit scene or something like that. Or a scene that plays during the credit. So they have an ad and then an end credit scene and then it goes on to the next show.

Or sometimes it's even worse. It's sometimes there's the end credit start rolling. That minimizes into a corner and shows an ad. It's like another one that I've seen. I'm like, am I watching an end credit or am I watching an ad? I think I was watching South Park and they played legitimately like the first two minutes of the actual episode. And then they played an ad. Right?

And then they play like 20 minutes the episode. Nearly near the end. Right before the end, another ad. Yeah, right before the end. Like a minute or two before the show finishes. Right, yeah. And before it concludes, and they play an ad.

And then they play the two minutes of the episode. And then they don't have a break or anything. They immediately start the next episode of South Park. Yeah. Oh, right. And let two minutes of that play, and then they play an ad again. Right, right.

And so it's like, it's, I was losing my mind. All in the wrong place. I was actually getting so angry watching South Park because I was like, why do they keep putting the ads like this? It feels like I'm being bomb I can't think straight.

Whereas the clear act of we put an ad in the middle and before the show, when did this go out the window? I mean, it's because viewers are more likely to keep watching the show, right? It's fucked up. It's so fucked up. I hate it from like an entertainment standpoint to be like, just let me watch a clear chunk

of this one episode have a clear moment where, you know, the episode ends and the next one begins, and that's where the ad break goes. Yeah, they don't give you a chance to take a P-Bron in between an episode. Yeah. Because they're like, oh, you might change the channel.

So we'll just play it immediately. First two minutes, now you can go. When did this change? When was it like this? I think it's always been like this in America. Has it really? Yeah. I have no idea.

I mean, ever since, like, the first time went to America, it was like this, and I remember that was one of the first thing I noticed as well. But then you look at like how, because normally like when you binge watch American TV shows, there's like a very clear cut of where they put the ads in. And it's just like weird moments compared

to British TV shows, which is just, beginning halfway through the episode, then ending. Yeah, we've really strict rules on advertising and stuff. So there's never any overlays or anything on the program. Meanwhile, Japanese TV is like put as many ads in as you possibly can every five minutes. It's so weird the stuff they promote in Japan. But then you remember it's for elderly people. Other people only watch TV, so then it all kind of makes sense.

Like they advertise like futons all the time. Foutons? Yeah. The hell kind of shows you watching. Just normal like NHK, they'll just cut to a futon. And there's so. So, so many tele-call shows. Oh, telemarketing shows.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's like, there's like three or four- marketing shows. There's like three or four channels. Basically, just play ad and it's literally just, it's literally whole, yeah, whole networks. And they're not like way back, they're like four or five on the remote.

And it's just like a whole network dedicated to ads. And they show you the product, then you can call up and buy it. Oh, it's like QVC or one of those. You've been imagine if QVC was like number five. QVC is number 20 in the or something.

It's like way, way down, as it should be. Because it should add, no one wants to watch that. Just think of like if the sham wow guy was just constantly promoting different types of sham wow 24 hours straight. So it's just an infomercial channel. Literally an informational channel. There's like three of them and they're like,

and like the first 10 shows or something. Yeah. I could be chatting out my ass with. Honestly, there's a lot of them. I mean, I can kind of see why there would be so many infomercial kind of channels because I don't know, like old people don't use the internet to buy things. Yeah, they don't know what Amazon are they called.

So when you're a kid, right, And you had a sick day, okay. So I remember, I remember as a kid, you know, you'd enjoy the fact that you had a sick day because great, I don't have to go to school, but what do you do? So back when I was a kid, I did had nothing, but just had television, right?

Yeah, yeah. So you had the morning TV shows. He had CBBC when I was growing up. And then it was like, it was like between 8 a.m. to, I think around 10 a.m., which was just like, brilliant, I'm sick. I get to watch TV programs for as long as I stay, And then 10 a.m. hits and then there is just nothing to fucking watch.

Like there is nothing on TV at all. And I remember I'd just be like, great, I guess I'll just fucking put on a KVC then because there's literally like nothing else interesting. Like Jeremy Kyle back then. You could watch- I didn't get Jeremy Carl as like a fucking seven-year-old. I loved it. I love the shouting and stuff and all the people jumping around. I loved it. Yeah, well I think it's because like during like weekdays, you know, in the middle of the day. Yeah. The only people who are watching TV is like anywhere below eight and anywhere above 80, right?

Because everyone else is at work or school. Yeah, because like if I can't watch something in the same, at least like watch some like shiny products. That's how I like my brain works, right? You're like, oh, if I can't watch something, I may as well, I may as well. I mean, as well, I don't know, we have to get this diamond necklace.

The guy on the TV said we get three if we purchase one. God. Because I like, I remember seeing all those like infomercial stuff during childhood. And even like 10 year old me was watching and I was like, who the fuck's buying this? Like, who's, who is buying this shit?

My permanent favorite thing of those is that like, you know, so that advertising the product, it looks fantastic. Yeah, you're like, wow, this looks great. Yeah, you know, it's a mop that cleans my floor and it cleans itself. Yeah. And you're like, great, I'm already sold. And you get to the end and it's like,

but if you act now, you can get not one, not two, but three extra mob. And you're like, whoa, this is just too many mops. I only wanted the one, now you have a second three. And if you buy now on this exact moment, you get two extra days free shipping. It's like, all right, this is, This is just ridiculous.

And they keep throwing things in like, and if you pay by card, we'll come to your house and it's store it for you. And it's like, whoa, whoa, whoa. And then the program will end. And then you can tell they've done this because they did it all the fucking time. They would record an extra bit after it clearly

didn't sell well enough, whatever, it would cut to another pit and it would be like, but fuck that part. If you buy now, you'll get five instead of three, only for today. And it's like, what is going on? What's going on? I'm losing my fucking mind. They literally just like keep adding on shit.

And it's always like, it needs to be now that you call it, like, before the next thing comes, and you need it. So like, there's people probably just like sitting there just like, wait, there's another thing. Half the time. Can I call it now? Can I call it?

I was sold before. And now, now they're just raising my concerns because now this is now too much, this is too much products. Now it's like too good to be true. Yeah, now it's too much, this is way too much. Yeah, I was sold on the $50 pan and now you tell me you're gonna include three pens. No way.

This is a cash down here. It should not be costing $10 per pen, including shipping, this is what, what, like, set me off was when they would introduced like when they would include a product that had like nothing to do with the products that they were advertising. Well they just like tacked it on for free. Like what did this come from?

You get the jewelry and you're like and now we're throwing in an extra tanger on top. It's like well this is totally unrelated. Yeah. All this is worth $300 but we're selling it for $30. It's like is it really? Really? There's no way all of these companies are making money.

Yeah, exactly. I'm pretty sure I'm, I'm, I'm pretty sure, I saw this thing that you're tacking on yesterday's commercial. So it clearly didn't sell well. It had like a golden age because like, I felt like there was a time when the products were actually semi-decent. Like that you'd go to the supermarket,

you'd actually see the section of, I see it on TV product and they were some of them were actually pretty good. Well, I mean, look how much the fucking sham well sold, right? Like that started as an event. I think it was just before the internet was invented. So like now you can just search up whatever product you kind of need.

And if not then Japan has a whole store for them. It's called fucking Diso. So like you just, to walk into Dyso and then you just, you find products that you never knew you needed until you walked into Dyso. We need a sign now that just says, as seen on Dyso.

It is as seen in Dysa. Like, Japan is just like the king of creating these little devices which have just like exactly one use, one very, very specific use that you never thought about until you see it in the store. And just like, wow, I guess, I do need like gloves that can like clean dishes at the same time.

I'm like, what? There's a lot of stuff like that. I guess I do need slippers that have like mops on them so that I can like walk around while mopping the house. I guess that's a thing. It's only 200 yen, fuck it, I'll take it. Yeah, why not? Meanwhile, if I saw that on TV, I'll be like,

who the fuck buys this shit? He's like, who needs a slipper that wipes the floor? They also like, it's like a hundred yen store, so like less than a dollar, it's around a dollar, but just under. And like, my favorite thing is that sometimes in DISO, they'll have the same product, but different brands.

and they're all the same price. I'm just like, what is this? Like, why, if you're gonna, if you're gonna have your competitor right next to you for the same price and what I think is the same quality, what is the purpose of this? Well, there's clearly no much competition.

There's completely, there's obviously not like like, like Dragon's Den would never work for Japan because you get the CEO of Dice or that and he'll just say yes to every idea. He's gonna, you'll be like, I'll put in an offer. I'm putting it in an offer. It just opens them out, I'm sold, I don't even want here it is. I'll put it to me.

Or putting it in my store. I'll put it in my store. I could you imagine Dragon's End in the UK. They would, they have like 10 fucking minutes introducing each other before they actually start the fucking pitch. You know what I mean? They had out business cards.

Oh, you know, it's gonna go Yeah. The person pitching would have to go and fucking pour in water and everything. Like it's like they can't even start and oh my God. Jesus. They'd have to start with like a board meeting

or something before they could even get in the room. Could you imagine? They, I bet people being pitched would be like, no, we know exactly what's happening. I want to see the script of the men pitching before he pitches it, you know, it's like insane. I would love to see it actually. What I never understood about those shows

is that it's just like, it's sold as, you know, these are very real businesses and very real ideas that some of them actually go on to be successful and stuff, right? But like you look at some of the people going on and you're just like, okay, I've watched Dragons then before or like Sharp Tank, which is the American version, right? There's like a very simple formula there's like very specific questions

that all the dragons ask every single fucking time. And somehow 90% of the contestants never know their fucking numbers. Surely that's the first thing you do if you figure out you're going on Dragon's Den, right? You're like, all right, let me just figure out my fucking profit margins. That's literally the first thing you should do.

Yeah, they're like, what's your gross? Sorry, what is it? I'm not gross, thank you, very much. And then that's like, what is your target audience or whatever? And they'd be like, I don't know. People. People with money.

I saw this watercliff and it made me fucking laugh. It was on the British one. And it was from the guy who's like the worst. He's like, so what is he called? Tuka, Tuka. Tuk, too, too, too. Sounds like a breaking bad character. Yeah, it's okay, right? He's like the guy who like all the other dragons hate

on the British one. And it's just a great moment. He's pitching the offer to them. And he's like, okay, so I'm gonna give you the 50,000 pounds you asked for. I've seen this guy. For 90% of the, business. And then the dragons were like, so all of the business. So you're trying to buy the

business off of him. What's the remaining 10%? You can't do anything with 10%. I remember. So, so, like, the person he was pitching to was like, so who are you given the money to? And he's like, I'm giving the money to the business. And he was like, but you own 90% of the business. So you're giving the money to yourself. And I'm just like, and everyone's so good. And all the other The dragons are like, what the fuck, bro? What the fuck is this? Ultimate money war. But imagine if you got to accept,

you're like, shut up, dragons, shut up. This is genius, he's gonna agree to it. Oh my God. Like, what is this? Like, these are supposed to be professional. Like, it's half these, sometimes you see the dragons, right? You're like, you're not a fucking good business, man. You just got really fucking lucky with one business

and managed to convince this fucking TV show to let you on. Yeah, yeah. Some of them have no fucking idea what they're doing, I swear. They'll be like, yeah, he's got a multi-million dollar business. Then when you think about businesses, multi-million dollar business is actually not that difficult. No. Yeah, because it's so stark the contrast between like Shark Tank and Dragons Den.

Like Shark Tank have like Mark Cuban and like, full on like fucking billionaires. Like really, really, really, really successful people. Yeah. Super, super fucking wealthy. And then compared to like the dragons, it's, it's. I think half the dragons are like pretty successful, but they've had trouble like keeping the seats filled. Right.

And they always bring in people. And a lot of the time, they've had, like, businesses that they just sold and made like $4 million, which is obviously a shit ton of money. Not gonna be wrong. But we're talking businesses. You know, it's not really a good proven...

In the business world, four million's not... You know, I wouldn't say, it's a hardcore proven track record that you know how to run a business 100%. You know what I mean? Yeah. All right, you might have got lucky here and there. You had a good idea.

It's like, it doesn't prove that you... I don't think that's good enough where you can go on and start telling people how to run their businesses. You know what I mean? Personally, you know, I get it. I get it. I was just kind of like, all right, okay, all right.

They'd introduce them, they'd be like, he made $2 million off his online card business. And I'm like, what? What is that? What? Never even heard of it. That's hardly a business. Oh, here am I kidding, I'm insulting them.

Two million dollars. Childplay. I don't know, I just, when you, when you, you know, we're talking a lot of businesses here, that's not, that's not that much in business terms. Well, yeah, in the business world, it's not that much, yeah. Yeah.

In layman's terms, it is. Well, yeah, I think that's how the show works. is that most people watching the show in the UK, obviously a million pounds. Like, what, two million pounds? That's fucking insane, yeah. Most people can't comprehend that. Yeah.

But, you know, when you work with some businesses and stuff and you understand the margins that are working with, that's not that much. But I guess it doesn't matter, it's TV at the end of the day. They're not actually trying to, like, it's not actually trying to give good a business event, but try to make a fucking TV show. No, if they did, people would know what, like,

a fucking, their net profit is and their margins are. I swear some of the British ones are, like, staged. They must be. They must be. Some of the stuff, because there's one time they looked like a pyramid scheme come on on the British TV show. Like a guy came in who just advertised a Ponzi scheme.

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No, I haven't. Why not? Because I don't give a shit about Movers. Oh, true. But you do give shit about Pokemon. Yeah, but there's, uh, I don't know if you've heard, but there's about a hundred other Pokemon games out there that I could also play.

But, uh, yeah, I don't know. Like, I saw like a piece of news on Twitter. I don't know how true this is, but, uh, like, I think it was like day two or day three that Pokemon United came out and the league players were like, oh, ho, what's this? And then they invaded it. And now apparently it's just full of, uh, it's either you're versing children who are eight years old

or you're versing league players. And like, that sounds like a terrible place. It just sounds like, like League 2.0. Yeah, so I'm like, no, thank, I like you, Pokemon, but no thank you. Yeah, the games are either very fun or not fun at all. Right.

You either get like stomped or you don't. As a gamer and a mobile player, how did you find it? As a toxic gamer. Yeah, as a toxic gamer, I enjoyed it. I didn't like the fact that I couldn't racially slur within 10 seconds getting in the game, obviously. That was very unfortunate. Of course.

There's no chat feature. There's actually voice chat, apparently. Is there? Apparently, I don't know how you have to get, you have to hook up the mic through Nintendo's like bullshit way of doing it. You could go to your phone. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I saw a voice chat option on the game. Oh, yeah, no, I have done that through Animal Crossing, actually. Oh. And it does not work on. So there's a chance that if you're a league player, you could say something horrible to that 10 year old kid. Right. No, I'm kidding, obviously, but I mean, yeah, it's fine.

It's weird. It's, it's, it's Pokemon, but it definitely feels like it's been developed not by Nintendo. Right. Like you can- So has it been developed my Nintendo? No, it's by Tencent. Oh, of course.

Of course. Of course. Tense has like, I guess a monopoly on Mobas. Yeah. Yeah, it's like, it's weird, man. It's like when you haven't seen that family member in like 10 years and he comes back and he's really weird. And he's like, yeah, I'm the same guy, right?

You're like, no, no, what is this? You're not the same person. Yeah, right, right. It's like, you know, you boot it up. There's, there's Gatcha, there's loot boxes. Oh, that's so weird. You can buy gems. It's like, oh my God, this isn't Pokemon.

What is this? Nintendo, micro-transaction-y? Yeah, they just been getting real comfortable with those micro transactions lately. They've been getting real comfortable with those loop boxes. I'm like, I haven't played Pokemon United but I've seen like clips looked into it

and it just, it's so weird, where did this come from? Was this announced a while ago? Cause like the whole idea of like a Pokemon Mobo is just like, how did this happen? When I think Pokemon, I don't think League of Legends, Dota. Well I mean, Pokemon. Well, people thought of that about Pokemon

when fucking came out, right? Like people are like, wait, what? That's true. That's a great game. Yeah, which is a great game now, right? But I remember when it was first announced, people are like, this looks horrible. This just doesn't.

Really? I thought it looked epic when it came out. No, I thought it looked epic. But I saw a lot of people who are like, that doesn't work. I don't know. There's just something sad. There's something sad about seeing a child's game by Nintendo like this

that's just shoved full of these egregious micro transactions. Yeah, true. But I mean, you know, it's whatever. You can have a differing opinion on it. I don't really give a shit. I don't know. So have you full for the gotcha yet at all? Yeah, Techtone, I played with a friend of ours,

and he was like, he was, he was, and he is a, he is a, uh, Gatcha whale that is pretty much his job. Yeah, and with, without, like, a Leviathan, isn't it? Yeah, within five minutes, he was like, spend a hundred bucks, just spend a hundred bucks, just get everything, just unlock everything. And he's like, and I'm like, no, I'm not gonna do that.

And he's like, I'll give you a hundred bucks to spend on it right now. And I was like, what the fuck? This man, when it comes to Gacha, this man like loses all sense of money. He has no, he has no way of holding back, but I respect it, you know? Oh yeah, of course.

But I just didn't want it, because I could tell that, I, I ended up spending like 40 bucks on it. And I was like, I'm not gonna play this again, but I'm gonna do it so I can play ranked. Right, right. Is it free to play? Yeah.

Okay. There's an excuse it, gone. Yeah, no, no, I was just asking. I was just asking, you said you spend 40 bucks, which is like the, free to play is the road to losing. There is items you can buy that'll boost your stats in game. So you can actually, it's not, it's kind of like the way. Is it pay to win?

The way it was explained to me, and the way I understand it is that, you know how like, League of Legends used to have a thing called room. that weren't pay to win, they would give you an edge, but you could unlock them through the game, but they give you a noticeable advantage, I'd say at times. But would you, like back in the day, because you'd buy runes, remember? Yeah.

Would you have described runes as pay to win back then? It's kind of like that. I mean, it's like, with the advantages that runes gave back in the day, you wouldn't be able to take advantage of that small stat increase, unless you're at like the fucking high tiers. Yeah, it's kind of like, Well, he's truly optimized it. The games just came out,

and no one's been, had the time to get the grand to get this stuff. So if you do just buy it, you do get an advantage, it's not massive, but you get an advantage. Right. I don't know how big it is.

I mean, from what I understand, it's not that much. It is, I mean, obviously any advantages should be a big no-no in game, I think, with money, yeah, yeah. Especially your children's game as well. It's like, you know, what's the next fucking Tetris with the micro transactions in it?

Well, I mean, you know, technically speaking, that's not the first Pokemon game with Microtrerand. transactions, right? I remember Pokemon Go back in the day? Yeah, and even then I felt like that was like, it's weird, man.

It's just strange. I feel like Nintendo, they're like, well, if another company develops it, it's not us. That is true, that's true. Pokemon Go was also not them. Yeah. But then Nintendo also does weird other micro-transactions or brand partnerships.

Like they have fucking Mercedes and Mario Car 8. Oh, yeah, yeah. They just have Mercedes. I remember that shit. What was going on with that? What? What? I thought it was like a joke that someone

at the dev team threw in, And then I realized, oh no, it's an actual brand like, I just, how did this happen? What's going on? It just battles me. I mean, whatever, I pick it every time I play Mario just because it's hilarious to see fucking, baby Mario and a Mercedes.

Yeah, just see him for a full Mercedes. I never played Marriott, A, so I, this is the first time I'm hearing of this. It's like a dead ass Mercedes. It's like a logo in everything. It's the car, it's just a Mercedes car. It's like three Mercedes cars. And it's just, it's just hilarious to see baby Mario.

I don't know. It's just in the game. In the game. Always since release? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not even like an unlockable, it's just there by default. You can just pick a Mercedes if you want. What? Yeah.

You didn't know this? I thought you guys were meaming. No, no, no. It's a straight-up Mercedes. What the fuck is going on? And even, like when you select the car, it literally says Mercedes. Where does this fit in the fucking Mario law?

How did this happen? Oh, you know, Mario was like, I'm sick of going through all these levels. Let me just hop in my Mercedes. It is bizarre. It's, you know, at least, yeah, you know what you're getting into. You know what Nintendo?

I can't figure out what the fuck they're trying to do. I don't know what they're doing. Everything, they're trying to do everything, man. It's just bizarre. I mean, I get it, whatever. I mean, good on them, I guess, man. Yeah, well, get that grind. Get that coin, man.

I just think, unfortunately, like, micro transactions is just like, kind of creeping its way into the future of gaming. Yeah, it was just, yeah, it was just. Yeah, it was just, yeah. Oh, yeah, no. Yeah, no. Yeah.

But then now they're like, yes. Yes, yes. Yes! Because, like, Genshin's come along and just prove like how much fucking money there is to spend on anime wifey as about it's. Yeah. It's like, it's ridiculous because I remember I watched the,

I watched the live stream of the new Genshin announcement for like the 2.0 in Azuba where they announced the new area. And I think it was getting like almost 400,000 people. 400,000 people on Twitch. On Twitch, not YouTube, Twitch, live, concurrent. Which is like, how much does like press conferences on like EA or like press conferences like E3 and stuff get? It's not that much.

Like 100K max. Yeah, it's like 100K, 200K maybe. Like this again shit update stream was getting 400k viewers concurrent on Twitch. Which mind you, what the fuck is going on? Which mind you, a lot of the stuff that they announced had already been leaked as well. So it's like people were like tuning in to look at leaks shipping like it's confirmed, I guess. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure if I was a fan I'd get behind the hype. Oh yeah, of course.

I'd be very happy for it. Of course. I mean, yeah. you know, obviously it did very well for them, right? And like, yeah, it just blew me away because I was like, oh, there's a Genshin stream happening. Yeah, 400,000 people just sitting there waiting for a fucking update, like, are you serious?

And now, more Gatcha. Whoa, yes, you have more Wifers! Yeah, I mean, like, I haven't gotten back into Genshin, I've been thinking about it because of the new area, but, you know, even, like, out of the three of us, the person who was most of the inter Genshin was probably me. And even now I was like, this is a lot of people watching an anime anime Wifu game right now.

Could you imagine if like fucking like, if like fake grand order had an update and there was 400,000 people like watching? But I don't know anyone who... Don't do that to me. Don't give me hope. Is Genshin like, is it, is it majoratively played on mobile or PC?

I'm assuming PC. Actually, I don't know. Honestly, this is a complete assumption. Yeah, we don't know, right? Of half the people I know that play Genshin, Half of them play on mobile. Seriously. Yeah.

Like all of my Japanese friends who play Genshin play on mobile. Oh God. I thought it would be more majority ofly PC. I mean, you'd think so, right? Yeah, because I did not have a fun time playing Genshin on mobile at all. I think some people just played on both.

Like when they're home, they're played on PC, but sometimes, you know, they're gonna get on that grind while on the go. I think that's one of like the biggest advantages that Genshin has over like a lot of AAA games, which is the fact that it's so fucking easy to play. You know, you literally, like, every account is linked, and now you can, like, even link your PS4 accounts to, like, every other account. So it's just, it just makes it, like,

ridiculously easy to play. Is it on the switch as well? Not yet. Not yet. It sounds like we're really an adreate. It does, doesn't it? It does. I mean, it is on the switch. Yeah, and apparently there's a four new or notable categories. Is there know there's a new area you can go to? This is the problem when I'm a fan of, uh, a lot of things I also end up promoting. I've fully disconnected myself from gaming hype. I don't get hyped about games anymore. I don't know if that means no happiness for me, but I've just stopped getting hyped

and I've stopped watching announcements. I think I've just stopped getting hype about things in general because I've just, because like, it is kind of sad. That's a little sad. It's called pessimism. Yeah, literally the lot, because I've ran into so many situations

where I just get hyped and I either experience hype fatigue or fatigue. Fatigue. Fatigue. Fatigue. Fatigue. Fatigue. Fatigue.

Fatigue. Fatigue. Fatigue. Fatigue. Fatigue. Fatigue. It's fatigue. So I had the experience hype fatigue

or I just end up getting disappointed with the final result, right? And I'm just like, oh, well then what the fuck? You know, give me back my hype, right? Yeah. So now I'm- Give me back my hype. I want a refund. I want a refund on my hype, please.

Still waiting for my cyberpunk hype refunds. Like- I'm firmly of the mindset. You should never pre-order a game ever. No. No. No matter how good or 100% it looks like amazing or the bonus deals don't. It's a bad practice and I think it's bad for gaming. It is. Here we go.

Here we go. It's bad for gaming, man. It sucks. I mean, it's, because like, I'm not into gaming as much as I used to be. And I, even back then, I just, I don't think I've ever pre-ordered a game or at least, like, I think the only game I ever tried pre-ordering was GTA. But that was just like, because it was GTA. Oh, yeah. Also, do you remember, like, it was like 2000, picture, your 2013, everything is a pre-order bonus.

Yeah. Literally like, everything is pre-order. Like, no, everyone is pre-ordering everything. That's just how it is. You're pure to fucking everything. Luckily now everyone's chilled out, but it was insane back in the day. I also think kind of back then,

it made more sense, right? Because back then, the game you were buying on the day was the game you were getting, right? There was no updates, no patches, no nothing. And it also made more sense because we, this is, I think it really hit its peak right before, maybe just during online shopping started popping up. Yeah, right, right.

You know, and this is before when you didn't really want to download it because people's internet speed, probably weren't good enough to really download a full 20 gigabyte game, but now, you know, people's internet speeds, it's not really a problem. Yeah, and also back then I feel like like you just had a lot less choice of what games you could play.

You know, as a kid, I'm just like, yeah, I waited like four fucking five months for the new Mario game because there was nothing else to look forward to. There was literally nothing to fill that void. I couldn't get a free to play game like Genshin-Nams. Like Fortnite or League of Legends or anything like that.

There was nothing to fill up that void. I think the only games that I've pre-ordered are the ones that like, I know 100% I'm going to love. I've ordered every single like Mario release of late and I haven't played any of them. Well, that sounds like your problem too. I don't know, why don't know.

Because I think the last game I preordered was Final Fantasy 7R. But I 100% of that because I knew I was gonna like it because I liked the original and like percent of five Royal as well I preordered that because I like for son of five. I mean I have so many fucking games that I've bought in my library that I just have. Oh yeah, same. I've downloaded them, I've installed them and I just never do

I'd open them. Like I've never opened them. What was the last time you got really hyped for a game? Final F. 7R probably. Did it live up to your hype? Yeah, 100% of it. What about you go? I was last I'm pre-ordered a game.

And it got very excited. I haven't pre-ordered like, the last time I got hype for a game, Cyberpunk. I'm not joking. That was the last time I got hyped for a game. Everybody laughed. Everybody lost.

And you know, and you know what? I still haven't even played it. I beat Cypunk. I didn't even shit. It's like a terrible game. No, because I was just like, great, it's a sci-fi game, it's cyberpong, this looks like everything I've ever wanted

to fill up that void, that Mass Effect has just left for, let me, left me for years. And now that hole is even deeper. And now the hole is even fucking deeper. It's a shame you couldn't like pre-order therapy with it as well. Comes with a free psychiatrist. No, I'm like every few months, I just Google,

is cyberpunk 2727? You know what, I saw a good article. It was like, Cyberpunk is nowhere near a No Man Sky turnaround. Oh, brutal. The devs are like, we're nowhere near fixing it, like No Man Sky to a camera, something like that. I was, according to something like that.

I was really, it was just how they said, they had to say a No Man Sky turnaround. Yeah, of course. I mean, that is like, No Man Sky is the fucking anime redemption art. Oh, yeah. The gaming industry. And I think it's like, one of the only redemption art.

That's when the antagonist turned into the protagonist. Because most companies, you just cut your losses and you're like, fuck it, make the next fucking fallout. Yeah, yeah. Fuck, 76. make a new one. Yeah, it's, it's, it's, well, when was the last time you got hyped?

Yeah, as the gamer. Borderlands 3, I was very hot for Boardlands 3. Was it good? Okay. No. I was extremely hyped for Borderlands 2. I absolutely, Borderlands 2 is one of my favorite games. Yeah, because I was gonna ask,

I've never played 3, but I've played 2, and 2 is great. I haven't played Boarderlands too. What was the sigh there, Garne? I just realized what the game before Okay, well, we'll get into it. Sub-Punk 27-7, what the last gamer was hyped before that? Boardlands 2, right?

I loved Borderlands 2, right? So I bought Borderlands 1, originally on the X Box 360. Right. And I thought it was shit. I hated it because I didn't have friends to play with. It was a terrible game to play alone. But when I finally went back to it months later, my friends bought it, because it went

on more sale. It just went cheaper, sorry. And yeah, I loved it. And I thought, wow, this, okay, this game is actually sick when you play it with friends. Then Boardlands 2 came out, and it looked like they just improved everything. And they did. And it was amazing. Boardlands 2 is such a good game.

And playing it with friends is, like, amazing. Like, this game is so much replay value with friends. And I absolutely had. like some of the best gaming memories playing Boardlands 2. So naturally, Borderlands 3 was coming out. And I had a monster gaming PC. I was ready. All my friends were getting it.

There was endless people I could play with. It was gonna be good. So I play it and yeah, it's just kind of like Borderlands 2, but with like a worse story. Like the stuff they add isn't very good. Wait, since when have you fucking cared about story? Well, Boardlands 2 actually was such like, Handsome Jack is such an engaging villain.

Oh yeah, yeah. But even when you don't care about the story, he's there always making you laugh. Right. And that was something even if I didn't care what was happening, I knew that I liked handsome Jack and then he was funny as far.

And I loved having that. And the two main villains were like YouTubers or Twitch streamers in the third one. Right. And it was just cringe because I'm a YouTuber and Twitch streamer. Right, right, right. I was cringe watching the guy.

I am the bad guy. It was like, yeah, I was just like poking fun at me in like the worst way. Right, right, right. And I was like, this isn't funny. This isn't the representation I asked for. I, I'm just slander. I'm all down for when people make fun of YouTubers

and Twitch streamers, I'm all down for it. But sometimes they do it in like a, Like a way where, in a way where that you've clearly never watched something because there are so many other things you could have gone for. Like, you know, they do the whole thing of like, oh, hi guys, whatever. And they could have gone for like, why don't you thank me for like the $10 donation or something like that?

That would have been funny as far. You know, like Bo Burnham did a great parody of it. I mean, Bob Burnham used to be a huge YouTuber. Oh, yeah. Obviously he did a great parody of Twitch streamers and stuff. And that was great. But I felt like it was a terrible parody. And it was also they were just so unlikable.

And there was so many bugs in it as well. Like there was so many game breaking bugs that just happened throughout. And I was like, like, this shouldn't be happening. I waited years for this. I got hyped for this. I felt invested in this. Give my hype back.

Also, I didn't really like any of the characters that you could play as. Yeah. It's kind of sucked. Board Lens, too, I felt like every single character was like POG. Yeah. Because like the game, the game I got hyped for

before Cyberpunk was, this just shows my track record and why I don't get hyped for games anymore. It was Mass Effect Andromeda. I thought you were about say fallout 77. I thought you were about say, I thought you were saying, no man, Sky. No, my God's like, Sorry, Fallout 76, Mass Effect Andromeda.

I love Dunkie's video. I've never played Mass Effect. I've just watched Dunkey's videos on them. And his video on Andromeda is so funny. I think I've played like an hour of Mass Effect Andromeda and I'm just like this, this just isn't doing it for me. Right. Like by that point, like I think,

I think cyberpunk was just, yeah, this looks like a game that could be, you know, could appeal to me, but I think Mass Effect was really what just killed my soul. Right, right. There's something so heartbreaking about it. in a way that I've never experienced. When a game just lets you down like that.

Yeah, yeah. Feels like your dad just never came home, you know? Like, it's like, damn. But it feels like your dad came home, but with a different woman. A new son. This is you now. It's just, it's,

I feel like that's the first time you get to really experience betrayal as a young adult. Yeah. A true betrayal. I trusted you. Yeah, I followed you all the way through and this is how you were paying me.

I stuck with you for years. I had memory. memories with you that I can't, I can't, I've never even had with anyone else. And this is how you're playing. It's gone like that. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, like, I just, like, now I just try to keep as little knowledge of the gaming industry and, like, what's coming out as possible.

Because I've, like, I've kind of realized my favorite gaming experiences recently have just been games that I had no idea about until they were out. Yeah. I didn't know anything at Breath of Wild and it blew me away. Yeah, exactly. I didn't know anything where Breath of Wild. I'm just like, it's been fucking, I haven't played Zelda since Windwaker and it was fucking amazing.

Horizon Zero Dawn. I was like, what the fuck, what kind of game franchise is this? I had no idea what it was about. It was fucking amazing. That's why I'm not hyping myself off for Breath of the World too, right? Because I don't want a fucking Andromeda to happen. You know, like, God forbid it ever happens,

but you never know, right? So I'm just gonna wait. I'm just gonna wait. Yeah, and also like I, you know, obviously because I'm streaming a lot now, you know, when E3 happens or Nintendo Press conference, I was like, did you watch it?

Did you watch the E3 conference? Why would I watch an hour of ads? Why? What, so I can get excited and give my money to a company that's gonna let me down? No, no, thank you. When the game comes out and I hear it's good, I'll buy it. Why would I sit down and watch an hour conference

of getting myself hype for something that I probably won't be hype about? I know, I think it's pretty fun. I'm not even the best of them, sometimes. I'm just like, sometimes when, like, I still remember when Final Fantasy 7 remake was announced and just the reaction around that, I'm just like, I don't give a shit about Final Fantasy,

but I'm fucking hype. Me who never played Final Fantasy, I'm like, what's going on? What's going on? Meanwhile, I was the one guy like, yeah. In the crowd. Yeah, and then they announced like, Shenmu three afterwards.

I was just like, what kind of press conference is this? Like, I think I was more hyped about the press conference than the actual games themselves. Yeah, Shadmoo three, that turned out to be a great game, huh? No, but I feel like it's a little, it's a fun little, you know, event, you know, if you take part of it, I just feel like... I just don't want to get hyped. What's like the Nintendo Direx, right?

That's like another one where it's just like, did you watch it, did you watch the Nintendo Direx? I'm like... There's something about Nintendo Directs that really pissed me off. I can't put my finger on it. I get angry watching Nintendo Direct. I don't know why. I think it's the way they present games

that clearly no one gives a shit about. They'll be like, and now is Just Dance 17? And it's like, why? But they always have to sandwich it between two big titles, right? Yeah. Which is like, you know, fair enough, right? They clearly know, but it's also just like, I don't care about Just Dance 76.

Sometimes they do like ad spots, I think, for other companies to, like, where they give, I think it's an ad spot, I think they do this. and they'll show a game that looks awful for like 30 minutes. And they'll just like a play through it. And I'm like, stop this, stop this right now. Like, show me an ad, show me an ad over this. Please, anything else other than this.

I can't stand this. Show me a bottle light ad. I'll take a bottle light ad. Give me fallout 76 demo or something. God damn it, please. I'm begging for something else. I don't know, I don't know. I think I'm just getting at that point in my life

where I'm becoming extremely bitter about everything that makes other people happy. It's good, welcome to adulting. I think I'm getting that point. It's called being adulting and it's called being British as well. It's like the worst combination. An old angry bastard. You know, I think I sit there on my porch,

just like rocking my chair thinking, oh, you young kids getting excited over games. How, how naive of you. Imagine being happy. Imagine being excited. How naive of you. If only I could feel these emotions anymore. Oh, you think Mario Golf is gonna be fun?

Really? Have fun playing Mario Golf. One time out of party, and they're never playing it ever again. Mario Tennis, you thought that was fun? I felt, I never felt angrier than when I bought Mario Tennis, the new Mario Tennis. Right.

It's fucking terrible game. Have you played it? Yeah, I like it. It's terrible, it's terrible. Why is it terrible? Wait, have you played the original though? No. Oh, that's probably why.

Why? Well, I have to have pre-requisite knowledge of another game. Well, compared to the original, it's much better. I love the original. I like the original too, but I think the new one just improved on it. I mean, I loved the original because I was a kid and I had zero taste in video games, everything was fun. I'm sure, I'm sure I pissed me.

Oh, sorry, I don't have tasted video games. I'm sure I pissed people off saying it's terrible. I just, I played it and I was so bored out of my mind to playing this game. I mean, clearly it's just not a game made for you, right? Why? Why is it not? I would have loved this, what's going on? What's going on?

Why don't I hate this game? You sound like the same crowd of people. It's not toxic enough for you. You sound like the same crowd of people who are pissed off when Nintendo released like the Nintendo 2DS, which was intended for like five year olds. It's like, how dare Nintendo not release a console made for me?

I like the 2DS. I thought it was affordable and, uh, yeah, I like the ergonomics of it. It looked like a fucking like Fisher Price, like, you fucking like children's toy. And adults are like, what the fuck? How dare you not make, what is this? I'm not gonna buy this.

How dare you make a toy? What are you? A toy company? I'm not one of those people who gets angry at Nintendo for not making adult-oriented products. Right. That's not that what they do. Right.

But, you know, stuff like Pokemon, I wish that they would put a difficulty option or something where you could add something, like that. I wish they would include something. The toxic game is coming out right now. Is that insane of me to ask Pokemon to include, like, something that makes it more difficult?

What, do you talk about like Pokemon Unite? No, no, no, no, no. Or just Pokemon is more Pokemon. Well, the great thing about Pokemon is that you can make it as difficult as you fucking want. Yeah, that's the beauty of the games. That's why Nuzlox are a thing. I know, I know, but I wish there was a way

that in-game was baked into it that allows you to make it more difficult or to do certain things. I just, I don't understand why. No, I don't think that's, I disagree. Because, like, I think, like, purposely leaving it open-ended to, like, how difficult you want it

is what makes that game so appealing to people. If you put a difficulty, like, if you went into a Pokemon game and you were, like, choose the, difficulty, immediately people will be like, oh. Okay, actually, actually, in regards to difficulty, I fucking hate choosing difficulty.

I hate it. I do hate it, so much. It depends on the game. It depends on the game. Because unlike some games, it's completely stupid and necessary, right? Like first person shooters, like I hate it because it just makes them more boll of spongy.

Yeah, that's all it does. But on some games like Pokemon, where it's like, okay, this, even a 12 year old, probably find this too easy. Like, especially the new one, the new one was like, well, the new ones like hold your hand, that's why. It was like, beyond. mind, like even like, you know, you play platinum.

That's, that's a problem with the game itself, right? Right, right, I feel like, I feel like this is a different, yeah, I feel like, even adding 10% more difficulty to this is like, what? Like, it's Pokemon Platinum, I was playing that, I did a Nuzlock, but like even the core game itself was actually kind of challenging. Yeah, it's not, it's not, you can't just, like, fall asleep and just spam one Pokemon.

Well, that's the thing, right? It's like, I feel that's the problem with just like Pokemon games in general where like, like, I played Sun and Moon, that shit holds your hand the entire way through, even as an adult. And I'm like, dude, like, 10 year old me, was crying, trying to get past like gym's three of silver, right? But that's great.

And the game didn't give a fuck. Like, it was just like, just get good. It's like figure it out. Yeah, you're 10, you should start thinking, bro. Start thinking. I just feel like nowadays people, people have less patience when it comes to completing games, man. Yeah.

There's no way. Making a Pokemon gym slightly harder is hardly asking for like, like, it's not, we're not in Dark Souls level of difficulty to the children's game. We're adding, I'm just, you know, there is, you should, should, in a Pokemon game, I think even if you're like 10 years old,

you should fail the first gym probably and be forced to be like, maybe I should buy some potions. Yeah. Maybe I should consider doing something, not just fucking steamrolling this shit with my mud cap every time. Yeah, just give it like good game design so that you don't have to say anything to get the play to figure it out, right? Yeah, it's like, you know, I just,

even like when you're, when I was like a much younger kid, you know, when I was 10, whatever playing these games, I hated it when games were like completely, like, steamrolly. Like, you could just do it without thinking. Yeah. It's like having some form of difficulty there is good. And it's also important, I think, for the kid to learn

that not everything is gonna be fucking easy. Yeah, exactly. Like, I remember like when I was fucking, like, eight years old playing Mega Man 2 for the first time. Yeah. And I was like, this is fucking impossible. Like, no one can beat this game. Dude, I fucking love that game though. It's one of my favorite games of all the time

because I learned to like, I learned success through failure. Kids have it too easy nowadays, guys. The problem is, right, is that as an adult, I have absolutely zero patience for games that are bullshit hard. Right, yeah. Kids do not. Kids will play the bullshit hard over and over and over again because it's one, it's probably the only game they're getting.

Yeah. And also, they love it. It's not. It's not. It's not. That's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's the problem. It's not anymore. That's, that's the point I'm trying to make. Yeah. No, because I feel like there's just, games are a lot more affordable nowadays. Yeah. Back then, you had one game every few months, maybe. But then still, most, if they're getting like an Xbox or something, okay, yeah, they can play Fortnite for free on it. But if they want to buy another game and it's difficult, they're probably going to try and complete it because they bought the game when they wanted it for Christmas or something. Right. Adults try to understand kids. No, I'm just thinking from my perspective. I don't know, maybe, maybe, I mean, most of them are just happy with like Fortnite and stuff, right? Yeah, right, right, right, but I mean.

I think the other thing as well is that, at least with like the old games, is that, you know, because they could only be so long, that they literally had to be like, all right, this game, if you blast through it, you could probably complete less than an hour. Exactly. But like, we want you to play this game for a long time, so we're just gonna make it bullshit hard to the point where 40 minutes of gameplay is gonna take you about 40 days.

Oh, there are a lot of, of bullshit moments in a lot of older games. Oh yeah. And I remember thinking back, and I'm thinking, how the fuck did I, like, play so many, like, levels of Battletode and Contra? Did you actually play Battleto? I did play Battle Towed.

Oh, my God. It's actually a really fucking good game. No, it's a good game. It's a such a shit. Like, to this day, as, like, I remember playing the fucking motorbike, like, the hoverboard. Oh, yeah, the hoverboard level. That's like a notorious level.

I think I played it, like, for a full week. in my room trying to complete that fucking level. Yeah, because I remember beating Mega Man 2 lots of times as a kid. Yeah. And then I recently played it a couple of years ago. I could barely get past fucking Woodman. Yeah, I'm like, how the fuck did I do this as a 10 year?

Oh, it's because I literally spent like a month of my life just grinding this game. Also, I can't play Mega Man in my age. I'm gonna get a fucking carpal tunnel. Like, I try playing Mega Man X. I'm just like, oh, I'm getting a fucking crap here from just like doing like the wall jump. Jesus Christ.

My God. That's great though, I love it. I guess I'm angry that I'm getting older and these children games aren't getting older with me. Yeah, I guess so. I mean, like with difficulty, I, like, I've, I, I, I now like when a game has just, like, one set difficulty, even if it's easy.

I agree, I agree. Like, I, I, I'm so, like, I get anxious that's with any game or any piece of media where I want to enjoy it the most, right? I want it to enjoy the most on my first playthrough. And sometimes I've had games where, I load it up and I hit the difficulty level selection and I'm just like, I'm getting anxiety just now. I'm already getting anxiety.

You know what, maybe I'll play this game another time. This is why I like games, even if they have difficulty options, they let you just change it on the fly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I like that. And it's like, all right, well, this section's kind of bullshit, I'm gonna knock it down. How do you feel about people who like purposely select, like, easy mode?

Well, like, it depends on the game. There's some games where I'm like, you're actually just like not playing the game. If you've been, right, right, it's far too easy. But like, there's that whole, like, stigma, I guess, like connotation that like, oh, you're not, you're not a real gamer

if you're playing it on an EC mode. Get good scrub, like levels of things, but like. I mean, it's, obviously if I was there in the room with them, I'd be like, oh, what's wrong, little baby? You're not gonna click normal? But, you know, being on the, on the podcast and if a general audience ask me, I'd be like, yeah, of course, well, can you pick, pick whatever difficulty you want.

Yeah, right. But obviously, if you're my mate, I'm gonna, play baby mode, Marriott. Yeah, I'm like, I'm like, are you play Maricopa? No, you're not. No, no, no, no, no, no. No, no. I mean, it's different, right?

You'll poke fun at your friends and you'll fuck around with that. But I obviously in general, I think that you can play whatever fucking difficulty you want. I don't wanna I care. Why does it take away from me? Just have fun. Just have fun.

If you wanna be a little baby bitch, you could be a little baby bitch. I don't care. You have the right to do that. You have the right to be a baby bitch. You pay the 60 bucks, you get to do it. You know, so you know, I think it's good because not everyone, you know,

obviously some people have disabilities as well, they can't play the game on the hardest difficulty, you know, because maybe they can't do it. You know, I just think, Accessibility is good in gaming. I think that one of the things that pisses me off most, and it's always the Japanese game companies that do this,

is that like the accessibility options in their games are terrible. Like they don't let you change anything. No button remapping, none of that. I love it when games are like, bro, what do you wanna do? How big do you want the character models to be? Or what, no, no, sorry. How bold do you want the outlines to be?

Do you ever use button remapping? Yeah, all the time. Really, I've never used it in my life. I love button remapping. And it's pissing me off that a lot of games don't do it. And a lot of the indie devs are normally the ones who include a shit ton of accessibility options. But that's a lot of PC games as well, right?

Like it's not a lot of console games have button mapping, right? I mean, the beauty of console games is that it's just plug and play. It's very simple, yeah? You just put a disk in or whatever, or do you download the game and you just start playing? Okay, so the argument behind accessibility options and button remapping especially is like,

especially with people who are, you know, maybe someone has a disability where they can't use one of their hands properly. And maybe there's a button where they can't press jump. Yeah. But they can press the jump button with this finger. Right, right, right. The idea is that even though, yes, this is probably the best layout,

someone might out there might have a ways your time with this button being on this one, right? So just give them the options to remapping. No, no, no. Why wouldn't? No, I'm definitely not against what remapping. I've just personally never used it. Yeah, Nintendo's gotten a lot better at it as well, I think, actually.

I think so, but they're awkward sometimes with it. And also like colorblind options, the last of us had like amazing accessibility options. Like you could change it so all the, everything in the thing was just like two colors, like it's all gray and the models are just like bright red and bright blue. So even someone who's like completely like, you know, has really bad a case of vision can play the game.

Because they can see the models outlines and stuff. And then you can also just turn stuff on for yourself. Like you if you prefer color, like a lot of people play Apex Legends with like the colorblind settings on to change the color of the bars and stuff to make it more visible. Right, right, right, you know, I just,

I think that especially, oh, another one, okay, sorry, I'm going on a rant now. This is one thing that I think is absolutely no excuse why there shouldn't be an option on every single video game, subtitles. Why is there not subtitles in every single video game? Yeah, I have the script. I hate it, I hate, like, I hate games.

I agree with that. I hate games that don't have sub-tiles. Like, sometimes I don't wanna have to, like, listen to it at full volume. And sometimes maybe there's explosions and shit going on, I wanna read it. They have the script, just plop this shit in. It's just like, what is it about,

not just gaming, but like movie audio mixing, especially if you like, I remember, I, I watched Mike crawlers yesterday with Sydney. And, you know, it's, uh, it's, we watched a few movies. And we will, we turned up like the TV to almost full volume. Yeah. Characist starts speaking, and she's like,

And she's like, what? What? Is that a subtitle option? And then we turned on the TV to full volume and it's still like, ah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And suddenly, out of nowhere, going, boom, boom, boom. Yeah. Like, I'm getting earwrecks right now. What the hell is going on?

I had some compression on this shit. I have got it. I literally had that, happened to me when I watched Interstellar, like last week. Like, oh my god, that movie, it's a fantastic movie, don't get me wrong, but my god, and I love Matthew McConaughey,

but man, like, listening to him is like, listening to a sub-war for that barely works, you know? This is like, whoa, whoa, whoa, bo-bo. Because when they're mixing these movies, they're mixing on like these gigantic audio editing suites where you can hear everything. I'm like, no, edit this shit on a fucking air pod, bro, so you can hear what most people are gonna listen to,

like, when they're listening to them. I'm like, it's this amazing scene, you know, when, like, Matthew McCona is giving this, like, really, like, intense speech. And all I'm hearing is just these fucking organs. And it's just like, ooh! And Maddie's like, I don't know what you're saying. Speak up!

Because like I suppose some of the time, like the audio mixing online video games as well, it's just, it's like watching a bass boosted meme, you know, where the dialogue is like so quiet and it just leak your ears get fucking destroyed. I fucking love YouTube videos. Some like small YouTubers, he's like audio is way too fucking quiet. and the music is like,

dun, dun, done, da, done. And you can't fucking hear them, and you know, I don't know why, I love it. It's my favorite. It's so charming. I know, it's so pure. I love it. But yeah, subtitles on video games.

This is why we need it. Even like, especially, even in your own language, right? Yeah, yeah, so there should be absolutely no reason why there shouldn't be subtitling, because they have to write the script for the game. Just put the fucking script into the software that can do this, right? Just, yeah, someone has to time it.

Okay, that sucks. And I hate how it's like a lot of games, the default is off. Just make it on, and if you don't like it, then you can turn it off. Also, I think a lot of games as well do this, and I think every game should do this, is that they let you choose how big you want the text,

the color of the text, the outline of the text, shadow and stuff, so you can get the subtitles just right. So, you know, again, if you can't really see very well, you know, you should, I don't understand why games don't just give you all these options. I get it, it's crunch, so they don't have time. But, I mean, it's like, all right,

well, just fuck the people who can't play the game like everyone else, right? Just fuck them, right? Yeah, fuck them. Which is why like everyone loves a clown on Xbox and I get it, you know. I'm an Xbox boy myself. I love Xbox. I think Xbox have done some of the like most amazing things for accessibility.

Have you seen the, um, the controller they've made? It's like this pad, right? And you can literally hook anything up to it. Right. Literally anything into a controller. And it's set up so that like you can just turn anything into a controller so that no matter how your position is or what disability you have, you can set it up so that you can get away where you can play games.

That's cool. And it's like they have so many mods with it as well, so you have in-built mods, but you can do anything, it's so cool. It's, uh, can you pull it up, Nabi, actually, what's it called? Oh, you're talking about the- coffee actually real quick while I put up.

Yeah, okay. Yeah, Xbox made this controller called the, uh, Xbox Adaptive controller, and like you can literally just plug anything you want, like a massive button, something that you blow on, like, literally- That's so cool. Literally anything you want. Is this recent?

It's been out for like two, three years. Oh, wow. It's been up for a while. Never heard of it. And, uh, yeah, it's done some amazing things. It's so cool that like Xbox thought to do that because they're probably not gonna make much money off that. Right, that's not something you make money off of

so a lot of the companies won't do it. But you know, I thought, fuck, fair play to Microsoft, man. I mean, yeah, like, that's great cred, right? Yeah, I just just like, why wouldn't you do that? They're looking out for all gamers out there. Yeah, and also, you know, just, a lot of the stuff Xbox. It was just, we were talking about serious stuff

and just the way, they're looking out for all gamers out. They all! I meant that with sincerity. It just sounds so facetious now. The term gamers has just like been ruined. It's been. For the record, I meant that in all sincerity. All right, please. Any, any game company or whatever

that spends money and time to develop stuff for, you know, accessibility options that they know is probably not gonna be valued by 99% of people. Yeah, that's mad respect. Yeah, of course. Well, I feel like- You're praised. I feel like in terms of customization and accessibility,

well, not, maybe not accessibility, but definitely customization, it's always been the PC, gaming crowd that's been like leading, leading the charge. And you know, obviously, Xbox, Microsoft, you know, it's, it kind of feels like it fits within their IP. Whereas Nintendo's kind of like the Apple of the gaming word, where she's like, this is how we're doing things.

And you can buy our peripherals, you can't buy your own peripherals. It's always gonna be our peripheral. It sucks, right? Because like, imagine it, like, Mia Motto's there, this kid who can't use his hands. And Memo's like, yeah, you don't get to play my games. Why? Because, oh, because you don't make enough money. Do you make millions of dollars?

No, bye-bye. But now, like, that's just like, why would you do you do you do? deny someone the option to go to play your games. You know, like I'd like to think that if something happened to me or, you know, if I had a kid who loved gaming and he wasn't able to use the standard controller, I'd wanna think that there's a chance that he can play his favorite games, you know what I mean?

Or I just, I know it's a boy. Of course it's gonna be a boy. I wouldn't allow it. Ew, girls! Daughters, disgusting. You know, I just, no excuse you. Those don't exist. They, ugh.

It's not hard to make something that's like that, that you can just allow someone to customize, you know, obviously you still need help from someone else to help set it up for you, but yeah, you know, I mean, I don't know. Why not? Pisses me off. Yeah, why not?

Like they, all these companies have all this money, right? Like, at least spend it on something that, you know. Like Nintendo at one point, I think it was a year ago. It was the most cash rich company in Japan. I mean, dude, that pandemic did fucking wonders for them. They have this cash lying around. Make a fucking accessible control on Nintendo. Fuck me.

Stop making joycons that don't fucking work. God damn it. Stop making JoyCon is that break after six months. Jesus. It literally is like an Apple periphery. It is, it is. It's just like, oh, breaks off the system. Let's just buy a new pair.

It's buy a new pair. A friend who is like, he didn't know anything about JoyCon drift, any of that, and they were like, yeah, I don't know what your- JoyCon drift. You don't know anything about JoyCon? I obviously don't play my switch enough.

It's when the D-pad just does, so unfortunately, there's a massive lawsuit going on. I don't know if it's been resolved with Nintendo and a bunch, it's a class action. Right. Essentially the controllers, after like, a random period of time, they just start

drifting the joycon, like the joystick on a turn. Right. It's not just the joycons either. The pro-controllers do the same thing. Yeah, yeah. And it's been a massive problem, and people have to buy so many joycons. And jocons aren't cheats.

They're like 60 bucks. Yeah, like, 60, 70 bucks, yeah. It's ridiculous. And yeah, and they just, they drift. And I had a friend who is playing it. And bless them, they're not really a gamer. And they were like, yeah, so when I'm playing it, sometimes I just go to the side.

Why is that? And I'm like, first time. Yeah, so Nintendo made a shitty product that doesn't fucking world. So you have to deal with it. Buy a new one if you don't like you. Spend more money. Yeah, Nintendo says they'll fix it as well,

but they have like warranty or something. I don't know. I think the last thing that's something like that happened to me was the infamous Xbox Red Rings of Death. Oh yeah, yeah. Well, that was such a debacle. I know. What a fucking clown fiesta that was, man.

Did you have to send your Xbox away to Microsoft? No, no, so like I did this like fucking guerrilla tactic that I found on the internet of like now, now that I know what I'm doing, I was just basically overheating the Xbox. So what you do is you fucking wrap a towel around it. And then, no, I'm actually serious. You wrap a towel around it and then you turn on the Xbox and leave it for like a few hours.

So you're just basically overheating it. You're overheating. You're cooking your fucking CPU or something. You should have been like a 4chan threat to set your house on fire. Like what the fuck? Yeah, very, very much like a fire hazard. But for some, for some inexplicable reason, it worked. And I have no idea why.

Wait, wait, so do you want to explain what the red ring of death is for people who don't know? So back when Xbox released their Xbox 360, they rushed it out and it was poorly manufactured. Yeah, had many problems. Yeah, so if you bought one of the first consoles, first generation consoles that were released, you basically had a time limit, right?

It was basically like a year or two. And every Xbox had this where you'd play and then one day, for one reason that nobody could tell, it just wouldn't work. Right. And so you would get the three rings, Right. So when the Xbox turns on, right, you would, you'd see like a green ring around the power button. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And basically, it was split into four segments. And the red rings of death meant three segments were red, which was mean something was wrong with the startup.

Right. And nobody, like, we called it the red rings of death because everyone had this issue. And no, and it never got resolved. And how you would resolve it is to basically send it back to the manufacturer. They cost Microsoft billions. Jeez. because of all this shit. Because it happens so often. And my friend, I had two friends who had it. So we had a group of four of us who all played Xbox. Yeah.

And I never got it, thank God. I would have actually cried. Because what my friend had to go through sounded like my worst nightmare is a 16-year-old me. Yeah. He got the Red Ring of Death and he had to send it back. And then they sent back a box that an Xbox that was refurbished and it was someone else's and it didn't work.

Yeah. What? So again, like this. So they're just recycling Xboxes? Apparently they were doing stuff like this. Like it was pretty widespread. So he sent it and they called them up. Again, this is like over months.

Like this took, I think it took like half a year to get it fixed overall. He'd sent about like three times before they finally fixed it. And then it broke six months later and he just gave up. He was like, I'm not doing it again. Yeah, I'm not sending it.

I mean, this is, that literally like scared me to death. I was like, the thought of my Xbox dying. I was like, this is my only, this is my lifeline. Like if this goes, what am I gonna do? I don't know what I'm gonna do. If I can't play Halo Reach, I'm gonna lose it. It's gonna be everyone's problem. Do you remember our memory cards?

Yeah. ever had like a safe file that's just been corrupt. Actually trauma for my childhood of like my fucking GameCube ones just like dying for no reason. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The GameCube once died constantly. Oh my God. I remember I just ended up with like a pile of them. You know why?

It's because I bought the Mad Cats ones. Ah, see. Back in the day, MadCats was like everything. Like if you wanted the controller or another memory card or any peripheral. Yeah. That was half the price, Madcats. So like we have the, we have like the Xbox ones. now in our, not the Xbox, sorry, the GameCube in our room right now.

And I was like, okay, I got to buy some memory cards for it. I just, and like, the trauma kicked back. The moment I said that to myself, I was like, we've got to buy memory cars. We've got to buy memory cars. I just ended up buying like 10 memory cars because I was like, I'm just expecting the worst. Yeah.

One of these memory cars is going to die in like two days, guarantee. Luckily, it hasn't happened yet, so I just have this like pile of memory cards in my room that are just unused just in case. But yeah, I remember, it sucked as well because it was like, there was no pattern to it. No, there wasn't. There was never a person.

It was just like one day, the memory card was like, see ya. Yeah. Yeah, I think playing with memory cards on the GameCube has given me a permanent fear of playing JRP's. Like, it was like, you know, Mario Car, you know, fucking any Zelda game, okay, Zelda's bad enough, okay.

Yeah, oh dude, like, I've had some Wind Waker accounts just completely die on me for no reason. But there is nothing worse than a fucking JRP corrupting. And I've had it, I've had it on GameCube, I've had it on PS2, I still have never finished Star Ocean 3 because I've gotten fucking 60 hours into the game. I was invested and then the memory card got corrupted

and I just lost 60 hours of my life. And I've never gotten it back and I don't know what the ending of that game is. I had it even worse once. I think it was like the second time I played a Final Fantasy game. I was playing Final Fantasy 6 for the first time on Super Nintendo and I was like 40 hours in. I think I was like maybe like two bosses away.

and just one of my cousins walked past, kicked the S&S, and completely reset, completely reset my file. What the fuck? Just like a light tap like that. It just went, p, just died and I was like, what happened? Flipped it back on, corrupt, all gone.

And I was like, I had, I'd never been that close to committing murder in my life. But I was that close, like, eight-year-old me was like, is this how like serial murders start? Joey was a good boy until the day. Until he wasn't. Until that day when someone kicked his SNE. And then I realized,

and then that's when I realized just the absolute fragility of these like old consoles that literally just a tiny, it wasn't even like a boot. It was like literally just like a little laptop. It was either you had like an absolute tank or you got very unlucky and one tap did it. Like I swear to God I dropped my Nintendo DS like a million times of the child. Oh dude, those things are brick shit out.

But I don't know how it never broke. Yeah. somehow, you know, my PS2 would just shit itself all the time. But I swear everyone else's PS2 was a tank. So I don't really, right, right. Like, for some reason, like, the always, like, the Sony ones, well, just, like, the most fragile things.

Like, being an Nintendo kid. Xbox 360s, I've seen, like, how those things survive, I don't even know, man, even though the Red Ringer death, like, outside of that, like, go on, I'm sorry. I know, like, do you remember, did you ever have that experience on a PS2 where, you know, you go up to the loading screen

and then you put it the disc in, and you're just, like, you're praying for, like, a few years, seconds of silence, you're praying to God that you're gonna get the, joop. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And when you don't, you have this, like, it's like this fucking hellish dimension, right? Where, where the PS2 just turns into, like, the, the fucking gates of hell opened up. It's all red. And you're just like, oh, I've got a corrupt disc. Oh, no. How do you even do that? How do you get a corrupt disc?

How does that even happen? Oh, how do you not do that? I'm sure. Have you never, Have you never, like, had a faulty desk? Even the OG, like, Xbox's, like, if that was, like, one, like, micrometer of dust on it. Oh, actually, oh, they're being scratched. Yeah, not even that scratched. If there was, like, just a tiny bit of dust on it, it just wouldn't run. I remember there was, like, disc cleaning services at, like, game stores. And, uh...

Really? Yeah, yeah, in the UK. And they just didn't fucking work, like, at all. Like, you pay, like, 30 pounds. Yeah. Which is, like, the cost of a game at that time. Right. And you'd get, like, two discs back, and they just didn't do anything. Didn't work. They'd be like, yeah, it's good to go. I'm like, no, it's not.

I put it in. Did you even try it? No, like, yeah, it worked. I'm like, fuck off, it didn't. That's why I like the, you know, like the Super Nintendo cartridges, right? Because it's like, if it didn't work. Cartridges are pretty nice.

Blown that bitch, like smack it against the wall if you want and you pop it in and magically works. Oh, speaking with the cartridge and things you should never do. Yeah. I remember how like, I had a fucking dickheads. Like, it was like, you know, you know some kids are just dickheads. Absolutely no reason.

Yeah. So we had like this, we had like this distant, relative friends who like, who is no longer a friend. Yeah, no, no, no, you'll hear this story. You'll hear the story and you're like, you know, family reunions, especially Asian family unions. They're like some kids there, some people that you don't know how you're related to or your family's related to,

but it's like a family, friend, cousin, and they're always fucking worse. So I remember we were like playing Golden Eye on the N64. Only chose our job, didn't he? Huh? But he chose our job. No, no, no, no.

He didn't do that. He, he got, he got, he got, He got smashed, he got battered and he was a pretty young kid. I schooled him. We schooled him. It was four, it was a four player game. He died immediately. Yeah, and he got humiliated.

And what did he do? He just went over to the N64 and just took the cartridge out. No, no turning off the console, no nothing, just took the cartridge out. It's a big no-no, you can't do that on playing. And I'm just like, you know the, you know the debates of like whether people can be born evil? Or whether they learn it? Like, I'm just like, Clearly kids are born evil.

Like I'm clearly just witnessing Johann Lieber right here. There are some kids that you're like, you, you, who, you must have been born for sunrime. You came out the womb a bastard. I bet there was fucking music playing when you came out the fucking room. Like Final Fantasy boss music. I bet Zephros feet player when you came out.

It's like for some, like as a kid, as I'm sure you can understand as well, like, yeah. As a gaming kid, right, there was like, you could punch me, you could spit on me, You could stab me, but you don't touch the game console. No. That's a big no-no. You don't, it doesn't matter how heated shit gets.

You stay away from the PS-R-Wong. That's sacrilegious. That's like, that's stuff that you, I was a calm kid at times. But the one thing that would set me off, it's like, you touch the game console while it's on. That's, oh, I'm a loser. I don't care who you are.

Yeah, one of my biggest pet peeves as a kid whenever I play with like a mate or something, or whenever I have mates over, is for some reason, everyone had fucking greasy hands and their controllers would grease up, Their hands would grease up my controller. No respect for the dual shock PS2 controller. Yeah.

Like, my biggest pet peeve was when, you know, when we were having food or something, and we had pizza and they would be eating the pizza while playing the game. And I could see, like, get a wet wipe, my, please. And I could see their greasy hands going on the controller and I'm just like, you know what, maybe friendship's overrated.

This is why I play single player games. And it forms that line of grease in, like, in between, like, the button and the controller. That's why, that's why. You can, like, physically see it. That's what, you know, when people would grab pizza, and there is kitchen roll available.

I'm like, you're absolutely animal. Why don't you, that was a perfectly good kitchen roll on the table. Why do you not take a slice? You know, for the crumbs or just to wipe your hands on. You know, this is pizza, it's greasy, come on. Never again. Yeah, please, please, learn some manners. Especially as adults, because I feel like even as adults,

there's some people who don't do that as well, and I don't know, greasy controllers is just like one of my biggest pet peeves. Yeah, it's pretty disgusting. Because it's kind of hard to clean a greasyy. Yeah, it is, isn't it? You gotta get the grease out and it goes in folds. Ugh, gross.

I was gonna say something, I totally forgot. You know what was my most hated genre of video online? It is like, yeah, yeah, genre of video. It is the people who turn people's game consoles off of like 10 year old kids while they're playing. And they're like, look, he's getting angry. Yeah, no shit he's getting angry. You just turn that shit off.

I've never heard of that genre of video. You must have seen them. There's tons of videos out there where people just go up to their little brother, turn the game console off or PC off while they're playing Minecraft or something. What a cut. And then they're like, ha ha, look, he's getting angry.

Yeah, no shit he's getting angry. He was probably building his fucking world. That's like the adulting version of that is like if your friend was driving and then you just pulled the fucking keys. I was like, oh look, he's angry. It's like, yeah, no shit, he's angry. See, he didn't deserve that. Yeah, that's like life-threatening.

That's just like, yo, I'm about to die. Yeah, it's in a end game. Well, yeah, to a 10-year-old, it might as well be fucking life and death. Well, I'd rather you pull the keys up. Yeah, right? That's true. It's life and death. So what's a good analogy, fuck you.

It's just, it's one. of these things where it's like, okay, doing something to, like, if that kid accidentally turned off his own PC, that's fine. You know, if he gets angry, yeah, this is his fault, he did. But when you do it to someone, you know, it's like, okay, just because you don't understand

the hobby and you don't understand how invested someone is, fuck you thinking that it's just funny because you, oh, you turned off, you got a reaction, do something else, what's wrong with you? How sad is your life? Especially when it's like unwarranted, right? Yeah, how sad is your life that you have to do this to someone, that you have to just turn their game console off

to get some views on Instagram or something. Like, fuck off, you're dickhead. Where have you started seeing? Yeah. These videos have been around for decades online. I think I'm just like avoided watching them. Some of the like most popular clips back in the day were like brothers turning off each other's game consoles

while they were playing and like watching their kid rage. I mean the only one I... This is a big thing. I mean the only one I know is like the kid who got like his wow account deleted by his mom, right? Yeah, that's staged though. Yeah. Yeah, that's stage but...

But I feel like I've seen some videos where that's been true. You've seen it. You've seen it. Yeah, I've seen some of those videos where just accounts get deleted. But like, because obviously now, because TikTok is, rising, right?

So I feel like TikTok has been going through a lot of the old trends that happened back in the day. Yeah. And I've been seeing it a lot on TikTok and I'm like, this is just isn't funny. This isn't, you're just a dickhead. Like, how are you getting likes for this?

Well, was it funny back in the day though, when you're watching it? But yeah, but that's because like the kids would like, stage it and they would like make these like insane reactions. It's funny back in the day when I was younger. Yeah, when I was 10. I'm older now, now there's just a dickhead move. When I was 10, I thought it was funny,

because I was like, oh, this is great. This is so funny. The kids shouting and screaming. Yeah. Now I'm an adult, I'm like, but then seeing another adult do it, I'm like, what's wrong with you? I'm sorry.

If my, you know, if I'm 10 and my 12 year brother did it to me, that's probably funny to another 12 year old me. One, one, like, video genre that's very similar to that I just, I've just never gotten or found funny. It's just like, people being dickheads in like big stores or something.

So like, it's like, I remember I used to see it all the time in Vine and TikTok or something like that. There's so many TikToks. Yeah, I said, I've been dick in stores. Well, just, just like fucking, just being public. It's just being public nuisances.

It's always like something like a Walmart or a Costco. Oh, well, where they're like, used to like, the milk challenge or they'd throw the milk in the air? Yeah, throw the milk in the air or fucking just like, get all the footballs and just like start throwing them everywhere or just like breaking shit. And it always like, it was always be captioned with like the fucking laugh emoji or something like that.

I'm just like, who's funny? Someone's gotta clean up this mess. Cause there's always someone making a mess or something. I'm just like, dude, like the fucking employees are getting paid shit I mean shit and they gotta clean up your mess. I wish that genre of videos would just die. Yeah. But that's the thing, right?

It's like, I feel that a lot of the times, like those guys just get away with it. Oh yeah. Like if there was like repercussions for every single person who was doing that, I think it would stop, you know, obviously. But they just think like, ha ha, teehe, I just made a mess.

I think some of the people, right? There was a video trend that went around. I have no idea why this is a trend at all. People used to open the ice cream containers and lick it. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and someone did get convicted actually.

Oh yeah, good. Because that's disgusting. Yeah, it's fucking vile. This is so gross. And I have to sit there and think, what kind of sick fuck thought of this idea and thought it was funny? And then also the person who watched it

and thought that's hilarious. I'm gonna go do that. That's what's wrong? How have we failed every single parent on this earth? How have they failed? There's two people who have the same idea and thought this was funny. And then again, after that, more people find it funny.

How are these people being bred? That's just how I feel, that's just how I feel about like most YouTube, or like the internet friends. There should be like a, you know when you go to the doctor to get your childbirth? They should play a series of videos and I'll ask you, is this funny?

If you laugh at any of them, they just deny. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're taking the kid. You clearly don't have the right to raise. Their child services are just standing there, like, waiting for you to laugh. It's like, do it, I dare you. All right, next up, we have the screaming

in public challenge. Yeah, there you go. And if they laugh a little, ooh, oh, I'm gonna laugh at me. Show the Tidepot challenge, do you think? Yeah. Just make you sure. How does it make you feel?

How does it make you feel? I don't know. It's so tragic, fuck, right. We're a shit person, Rawshack test. That's terrible, man. Did you ever find shit like jackass or something funny back in the day though? Yeah, but that's because I think it was new

and it was unheard of and, you know, as well, when it was on TV, there was a lot of disconnect. Yeah, I feel like that disconnect from TV is just gone because there was always like, I don't know, as it might not have been true, but as a kid I was just, if it was on TV, then there was always that disconnect of like, oh, this is maybe staged or they sorted something out. It's all, people in that,

that video got a compensation of some form. Well, because you know, when Jackass did those stunts in public, you know, even back then the rules were the same. You can't just upload any footage of any person's face. You have to get a release form. So they were still, that means the person they prank clearly signed off on it.

Yeah. Because you have to get the release form or they've looked. Yeah. And in that case, it's like, all right, well. I like Jackass back in the day, but like the ones where they would do shit in public with like just, you know, random people in the streets, I did not like watching those. Just because like, I felt bad for the people

who got involved, right? What was it? But I like the ones. That's the way they would just like do shit with each other and just laugh at each other, like those are fucking hilarious, but yeah. But you know also that even with jackass right, and a network is sounding off on this, they are following rules, right?

The problem is with like, and people are doing this in public and they're doing it on their own. They don't know shit. There's no rules, there's no release forms. There's no, there's no procedure around this. And even if you are gonna prank someone, you can't just show their face, like you have to get a release form. Like it's, it's a mess.

And I think the problem is that because they've, we've seen this on TV, the younger generation think that, oh, okay, well, I can just do that. It's like, no, no, no, no, no. There's lots of adulting things that happen. There's a reason why all the big prank channels fake the stout, the pranks, because it gets to the point where- It's always they can't get away with it.

Yeah, you can't. Like, getting release forms is a nightmare. And also, you know, getting the, even getting the reactions you want is a pain in the ass, and then you have to get them to sign a release. Yeah. So it's, it's, you know. And so a lot of prank channels just are dickheads. And they die. Yeah. Well, nearly all of the, like a lot of them ran into trouble. Like, I mean, a Vitalia, whatever was in prison.

Yeah, yeah. It was prison in Egypt. Or what did he do? He climbed the fucking pyramids. Oh yeah, that's right. I remember that. Did he do that? Yeah, and then, and then when he got let out,

he was like, he was the worst thing ever. And then he got out and then went and beat up some old woman. He jumped old woman in like Santa Monica or something. He actually went insane. Like he like beat the, he nearly killed this woman. Fuck. I think the, don't do pranks.

Yeah, because I think the one story I remember was like two kids. Oh, that one's horrible. The two brothers who are, who faked like a burglary or something like that? Or fake like a bag. Oh, the two brothers. And they got the Uber. Oh, yeah, yeah. And then they got the Uber, and the Uber refused to drive them.

And they were like, what an asshole Uber driver who wouldn't drive us? And I was just like, what is going on in this world right now? And they thought it was hilarious. And the people, and like millions of people found that hilarious. It's tragic, you know, and like, you know, that prank where that, oh, not prank or that challenge where that guy tried to see how many,

if a book could stop a desert eagle or something, which, you know, you have to, you can't help but laugh. And the girlfriend literally, and she killed him and it's like, it's like, this is tragic. Cause like, you know, people obviously getting these ideas from watching this shit online. It's fucking terrible.

I think pranks are a genre that should just die on, which is. And any prank that isn't like a very just like, chill prank on like someone you know. Right. You know, those pranks are hilarious, right? The ones that always end with the person getting prank laughing.

It's like, you know, the ones that are like fine. You spray your housemate with water, you put a pie in the fay, whatever. That's all good fun, you know? But like, I just think when you're doing it to strangers and they have no say, it's like, and it's something that could hurt them or something like genuinely scare them.

Like you could be traumatized if you're like some of these friends. So I was like fuck that. No. Just like don't be an asshole basically. It's it's such a fine line because you know the the line between. But a lot of these people are psychopaths. Yeah exactly. They don't know if you are psychopaths.

And you know unfortunately we live in a climate where a lot of times being an asshole gives you good. You're rewarded. You get rewarded for it. Yeah. And it's unfortunate. Man we're just like growing into like old, bitter old men, aren't we?

I just, I just, Man, I don't know if it's because I've just been on YouTube so long, man. It's just, I don't like to be like elitist and look down on genres of YouTube. But pranks is one of the genres. But then I do. But then I certainly will towards pranks. Pranks are a genre that should have died long ago.

I mean, and luckily they have, I feel, in a lot of ways. But I mean, they've died on YouTube, but now they've just migrated to TikTok. They've migrated to TikTok. They started on YouTube and then Vine was also, there was so many prank vines as well. And then now I think they've just both migrated to TikTok as well. And it's just...

I've been watching a lot of YouTube shorts and I just lose my mind watching this stuff. Why are you watching? You're of who? I don't know. It just pops up and I watch them. Some of them are funny. Something pretty good,

but obviously just all reposts. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, like, there's some genre of videos that I just think, I absolutely despise to death. And one of them is, like, there's a genre. I don't understand it at all. This is this video and there's this guy, right? And there's, like, imagine it your phone is vertical,

whatever, it's cut into two. There'll be one video of the guy explaining the video that is about to play before you. Okay. That is very self-explanatory. Right, right. So there's one where there was this video and he was like, this guy's like,

who are the different types of Pokemon compare to each other in size? And it goes like, Pikachu, one meter, Snorlax, one meter, 80, whale, Lord. And it's like, I did not need you to tell me what this is. And I don't need you to sit there for 10 seconds like this while the video is playing after you've explained

what it is. It's still on screen the whole time. He's just sitting there. And then he'll go like, whoa, that's big. Well, I didn't expect that Pokemon to be big. And it's like, what is this? What is this? That's inferiority.

You sold someone else's video, you reposted it. Oh, it's not even his video. No. And no, no, it's no, of course it's not his video. And they just repost it and it's like, this is shit, this is the worst type of content. I hate this so much. It's literally just stealing.

I just hate it, man. Yeah, it's terrible. I hate, I, I-reaction, reactions 2.0. The evolution. This is what it, because, yeah, that's what it is. It's reaction videos with somehow less ever. Yeah, they've made reaction videos that are somehow worse than reaction videos

where they're like not even reacting. It's like, hey, I'm gonna explain to you what the video is gonna explain to to you. They're literally just a talking description box. Yeah, it's, it's, that's all it is. I immediately skip them whenever, or any like, financial advice ones I skip immediately.

There's a lot of those. There's a lot of ones that start off with inspirational music. You'll be scrolling and you'll hear the inspirational music. Here's how I made my first million dollars. I'm like, sure, why are you working for $10 an hour? And it's like, I know this is going. And it's like, I work for $1,000 an hour. You know why? I value my time.

And it's like, oh my fucking God. This sure amount of guru stuff on TikTok and, you know, on TikTok and YouTube shorts, it's insane. It's way out of control. Well, yeah, I mean, like, it's... Poor kids who are gonna think that, like, everyone should be earning 10 grand a minute. You know what I mean?

Like, they go back to their dad, you know, and the kids like, what do you want to do for Christmas or what do you want to do for the rest of your life? Kid comes in with a fucking Bluetooth headset. Dad, I've already started making $10,000 an hour from drop shipping online. You know, the fact that you're working at your job is actually kind of cringe, Dad.

You know what I mean? It's like, like, you're gonna have a whole generation of kids race like this. I know. They're in like fucking kindergarten and it's like putting down what they want to be when they grow up and everyone puts entrepreneur.

That's like, what do you want for Christmas son? Dad, why haven't you invested in my 401K? This is embarrassing. When you grow up, where would you like to go? Silicon Valley. It's the only destination. It's fucking absurd. It's so stupid, that. I can't stand it.

Just do what you want, man. Just do what you want. There's a lot of really funny stuff though on there. But you have to, you've just siphoned and shoveled through so much shit to find some good TikToks and shorts. That's why I just wait for them to eventually get onto Twitter. Yeah, yeah.

You know if they like make their way on like YouTube compilations or Twitter, which is how I can see most of my TikTok because I did actually try downloading TikTok the other day and I gave it a go and I was just like, ah, it's just, I'm, I don't have enough patience for the algorithm to find what I've really liked. Because there's so much shit you go through. And there's like, it's so weird seeing some of the TikTok's

that are there. Cause I remember, I remember going through anime TikTok, right? And seeing, okay, I'm, I'm, I am an anime YouTuber by trade. I wonder what anime TikTok right is, is up to. That was your first mistake. Asking that question. So, so there was this like really, really weird trends that was going on, which is like the silhouette trend

or something like that, right? I remember that shit. Okay, okay, so, so you know, you know what I'm talking about. I don't know what I'm talking about. Well, like, these girls or guys would like basically pretend that they were making out with a silhouette of a character or something, right? Yeah.

And one of those, that's funny. And one and not, but it's just like, it's 100% serious. It's ironic. Oh. It's ironically funny. Oh, I thought it was a joke. No, no, no, no. It's a hundred percent. It'd be funny for it was a joke. Oh, I thought it was a joke.

It's a hundred percent serious there where like, where like, we're like, you just pretend like you're making out with someone, right? And it's like, there's no irony to it. It is just that. Yeah. And I remember I was browsing anime TikTok and I saw a clip, which, had like millions and millions of views on this clip.

And it's this, and then this is this girl who's pretending to make up with a silhouette of Barkago. And they literally look, they literally put in sound clips of the dub to make it seem like he's like, he's in a, he's in a dominating fashion. Oh my God. For this TikTok and I'm just like,

I must be getting old cause I remember, I remember if you did this like when I was an anime fan growing up, you'd get bullied for this shit. You would get crucified. You would like this, like this is the type of shit pretty good people got internet bullied for man. I like the Jojo pose one. It's like, Jojo Pose.

That one was cool. That one was cool. That one was cool because there was like, yeah, because like there was either people who were just really good at Jojo posing, but then there were other people who like took that and put like a spin on it, right? With like all sorts of different anime and stuff like that.

That's fine. But like that shit is the same as like, you know, like laughing at those is the same as people, you know, laughing at like back in the day of like, you know, watching people proposing at anime cons and stuff like that, right? Like that trend of video is just like kind of coming back but now it's just on TikTok now.

Yeah. And it's just so weird seeing these things trending and being popular because I just remember thinking, wow, like this is so much different to being an anime fan when I was fucking, when I was fucking growing up. They just like repost anime scenes and like play different music.

And I'm like, what is this? What, I don't wanna watch this shit. I've seen this repost of this one anime scene a million times and it's some samurai versus like a lumberjack. What? And they're like fighting each other. Okay. And I've seen this scene reposted on YouTube and TikTok

and stuff like a million times. I still don't know what it's from. But I've seen this fight like a million times. And it's always on TikTok. I don't get it. Is like good at all? Yeah, it's pretty cool. But that's it.

That's it. They just keep reposting it. Like I don't get it. At least it's not like the samurai long-jerk making out, right? And the silhouette challenge. It could be. Next TikTok idea. I don't know.

Free real estate, take it. We'll do the silhouette challenge. It gave me the same reaction as you know, that animation of like Sonic and Mario making up that animation. I love that animation. That's the best one. That's a great fucking clip, bro.

It's, it's, it's, that one has, like, so many layers to it, though. It's the fiery passionate which, uh, Mario and Sonic are making out. And Sonic rips off Mario's, like, shirt and, like, such a passion. Yeah, yeah. That makes me feel like they are in love. It's so funny. It's amazing. God, yeah, just, I don't know, man, like, I tried downloading TikTok because, like,

Rki uses TikTok quite a bit. Which are like, boomers here. I'm trying to get, understand these kids here. I tried it. I just can't do it. Because I saw it was getting so big, so I was like, all right. Well then, you know, because it is getting so big, there might be a chance one of these days,

but I might have to start using it, right? Yeah, yeah. I scroll through it and I just feel like I'm losing my mind. Yeah, right. I feel like my mind is going numb, watching this stuff. Because it's so fast-paced, you don't get a chance to do anything, you don't get a chance to like think, you just, all right, next, next. It's just, it's like literally just constantly just watching Instagram stories.

I'm like, I can't do it. I never felt like I was in like a black mirror thing until I was watching YouTube shorts. Right, and TikTok, because like, you don't even like, you don't even like, you're not even watch. you're just like consuming the videos. Yeah, yeah, you scroll the next one, scroll the next one.

You don't even think, you just scroll, keep scrolling. And like on YouTube, at least you have that thing of like, oh, I'm gonna look what I wanna watch. Oh, listen not good, okay, refresh the homepage, refresh the homepage, look at the brow. You have to actually think what you're about to watch. Yeah. But on TikTok and shorts, they just feed it to you.

Yeah. And you don't think. It's weird, right? Like I feel like we're getting to the point where content is being forced down your throat. It's like not where you're choosing to watch what you are. Right, right, right. I mean, there's this, there's some content on TikTok, which was just, so weird because it was almost like hypnotic

because there was some content that it's just like had obviously like millions and millions of views and it's just like some very oddly satisfying thing or something or something, I don't know, it's so hard to describe why I was like, not invested but just like, intrigued. Intrigued by it. Yeah, but I wouldn't call it like interesting content.

It was just like, oh, that's a- Entrenched, couldn't take your eyes away. That's a bit interesting. All right, and next. Oh, okay. That's pretty good. Right, right. It wasn't like, I was never like emotionally invested

in any of this content, which is why I kind of felt like, almost hypnotic in a way. Because it doesn't give you the time to get emotionally invested, right? Because it's over in six seconds. Yeah, I mean, I've, like, I've, the only funny TikToks I've seen, I've been TikToks that have just like made its way

into Twitter or YouTube compilations. Yeah, yeah. Like on TikTok, I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Well, how do I make TikTok? How do I make TikTok good? I wanna know, I wanna know where to find a good content. Because you can't search, Like you can't search for anything.

Like you can, but you'd have to sift through, just like, if you look up like a hashtag, right, that if you happen to find one, or like an audio file or something that you thought was kind of funny that's been used, right? Like, you can search for that. But in order to find, like, the actual good shit,

you just have to sift through so much unrelated shit. I had like a few orders of mine, like, get pretty big. Yeah. Like, from my YouTube videos. And I was just like, what the fuck is this? Because it was like really bizarre things. Like it was one way it was about me like saying, sucking dick or something.

Yeah. And cosplay. And it like, it like, There's so many people who used it to make TikToks and I was so confused. Because it was like, he's like 13 year old kids being like, there's no time to talk, I need to wear cosplay and suck dick or something.

And I'm like, is this okay? What is going on? I'm so confused. And I was like, okay, hopefully people don't watch my videos. Like, somebody's kids are really young. Yeah, it's, yeah, I've had a couple. It was cool. Yeah, I've had a couple of TikToks where they've used my audio.

I like it, though, I think it's interesting. No, it's really cool because it's like, oh, that's kind of flattering that they thought it was I just feel like a boomer when I look at it. I'm like, what's going on? But yeah, but at the same time I'm like, that's cool, but at the same time I look at it, I'm like, why are you doing this?

Why? Why? I just thought, I was thinking, I was like, surely I said other things in order that are more entertaining and more useful than this. And like, of all the things I've said, you thought this was the funny? Yeah, yeah, I mean, that's how the internet is, right? It just takes things off, I don't know.

I don't know, it's weird. We don't know how to TikTok. Have you ever, like, legitimately thought, being like, I need to start a TikTok? No. I mean, I don't know. Like, like, because there's lots of YouTubers right now who are like starting TikToks now, like kind of getting into it.

I'm not convinced the TikTok audiences, well, the demographic I want. Right. I don't know, I like the demographic I have right now. Yeah. I like just chill and do my own things, streaming games. I mean, it's like, I think we've grown up, we've brought, we've like made an audience that like us for us.

Luckily enough and like the content we make. I don't feel like I need to move myself on a different platform just because that platform is getting popular, right? It's kind of like, yeah, we've definitely grown with that. Well, our audience has grown with us. Yeah, it's kind of like why I get so many messages about this, about, gone, why don't you use Instagram? Why don't, why don't you?

And it's, how? Why don't you? It's the simple answer of, I just, I'm shit at taking photos, okay? I just forget to document in my life, I'm sorry. I feel that, okay? And it's just, you know, I'm, I- That's why I get my girlfriend to take photos of me, because I'm so shit at taking photos of myself.

And it's just like, you know, you get brands coming to, like, oh, Instagram's the, you know, Instagram's got the most viewers and the most, like, audience and the biggest numbers. And I'm just like, well, is that really valuable just going on a platform just because it's got big numbers and the big audience? Or is, like, as a content creator, I find it's way more valuable, even if you're promoting to a smaller audience, that it's an audience that is more suitable for the stuff that you're making, right? So I'm not going to make a TikTok just because it's popular unless I think I actually like TikTok, or I think I can make good TikToks, you know, because otherwise,

I'm gonna get a bunch of audience that I don't understand. Or, yeah. And I'm, and then I, and then I will literally be the boomer then, you know, and it's just like, oh, let's, let's connect with the kids. Everyone's having a TikTok nowadays. See my TikTok of me, making out with Barker. Yeah, maybe I would take off that. Maybe I could do it.

God, making out with Bachar. But you know who else has a TikTok or who doesn't have a TikTok, our patrons? I don't know. I tried to fucking use TikTok. Shout out to the patrons that are actually in right now who don't do terrible outtriks.

I tried to somehow segue from TikTok just didn't work. That was the worst. Yeah, I was like, you know that group of audience members that do this thing but also don't do this thing? These guys. Pretty sure like the fuck,

you rode the segue and just fucking crashed into a train man. It was right off a cliff. But hey, if you like to join the Patreon and support the show, then make sure to go over to our Patreon. Patreon.com slash trash taste. Also, follow us on Twitter, send us your memes on the subreddit,

and if you hate our face, listen to us on Spotify. And yeah, that's been pretty much the boomer episode of a trash taste. We are getting old, I- I'm 25, man. Quarter of a century olds, I prefer to say. Wow. Look at this baby.

I've probably aged mentally the most. Yeah, you are the closest to death. I've been considering getting a lawn mower that I can sit on. To be fair, there are times where I'm like, that looks lit. You know if I'm getting a lawn, I'm getting a lawn mirror I can sit on.

Hell yeah, dude. With a slot for my TikTok phone enables. So I can watch all the people meet, yeah, with my phone. 4K. On my OLED 4K phone. You know how like, you know the first time I felt old? Right.

The first time I got a bonus trash taste. Bonus trash taste. We're over, I just, I just need to say this. First time I got excited about buying furniture. I was like, yep, it's over for me. But like, now that are moving. God damn, I'm so excited to refurnishing. Dude, when that new washing machine came in,

I was like, dude, fuck the hype I felt for all these games. This is where the real hype is that, dude. I'm excited to cable manage. I can't wait to do it properly. I've done it wrong. Anyway. You keeping up with us kids? Anyway, we'll continue this on the next trash taste.

Yeah, we'll move in. Well, thanks for watching guys, and we'll see you next time. Bye. Bye!